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et Mai pig hi (i) autumant. ' -*- Secundum 

 Eichhorn corpus mucofum in cadaveribus ex- 

 ficcatione adglutinatur corio vel epidermidi ; in vivo 

 corpore est materies albuminofa, mucofa, tenuisfi- 

 ma tela" contenta, alcohole coagulabilis , unde in Mu- 

 ieis adeo pulchre exponitur. Per telam , hunc mucum 

 tenentem , fenfim fenfimque denfatam , rete vascu- 

 lofum ad fupremam cori panem extenderetnr (2). 

 Fieret rete Malpi'ghii ex alb um in e feri , ab ar 

 teriolis ferofis nutritionis caufa adducti , cujtis feri 

 aqua et fales fudoris infhr per proprios canales de- 

 veherentur , albumen rete Ma! pi hi i formaret et cu- 

 tem nutriret (3) $ in reti hoc ostiola cxigua va- 

 forum lymphaticorum adesfe fuspicatur (4). 



. 6. Haec tandem omnia , fuel inllarficci et defen- 

 tis , obveftit Epidermis. An e plurimis laminis t'acta 

 fit, uti quidam veterum Cs) et recentiorum volunt(6), 

 vel an masfa fit homogenea vafis -aeque ac ner- 

 vis C7)> ant his tantum (8) desdtuta, an expanllo vafo- 



rum 



(i) Chausfier et Adelon, Art. ,,Pcau" in Diet, 

 ties Scicnc. Mid. XXXIX. Par's 1819. p. 567. (2) Mec- 

 kel's Arch. 1827. p. 4043. (3) Meek el's Archiv. 1826. 

 Eichhorn, aw Gutting. Ueber die Ausfnnderun^tn durch die 

 Hau$ und ueb ( .r die Wegc , durch welche fie geschehen , p. 



405486. Cf. p. 4470148 (4) Vid. 18-27. P'86 0) Vid. 



apud Haller V. 15. ~ (6) E. H. Weber, Beobacht. ueber 

 die Oberhaut , die Hautbalge etc. Meek el Archiv. 1827. 

 p. 198. 201. (7) Be" clardjkc p ?6a. (8) HalJer,ner- 

 yos non adesfe dicit , vascula autem ne^are nou aufus est. V. 15. 



