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A Study of the Structural Unit of the Liver 
course of the capillaries is in a more direct line from the portal to the 
hepatic, from the portal to the portal and from the hepatic to the hepatic 
than in other directions. 
Fic. 48. Tracing of the terminal hepatic and portal veins with the nodal 
points marked n. X 40. Hepatic veins slightly injected. 
Figures 47 and 48 show the first spreading of granular injections 
and their relation to the lobule. It is seen in both cases that the most 
favored vessels point toward the nodal points, 7. e., these capillaries are 
a little larger than the rest of the capillaries of the lobule; they have 
