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and the chromatin relatively abundant. In photograph 9, which re- 

 presents a similar section of the stomach of the more starved animal 

 we have an extremely vacuolated condition of the cytoplasm, accom- 

 panied by the presence of numerous small black granules, and a nucleus 

 on the whole maintaining its size very well, but containing less chro- 

 matin than in the less starved specimen. In the lumens of certain 

 tubules will be seen aggregations of these — or very strangely si- 

 milar — granules. 



Fig. 8. Fig. 9. 



Fig. 8. Photograph of cross section of gastric glands of stomach of animal starved 

 for 4 months. The cells show large nuclei and the general cytoplasmic appearance 

 common to normal cells. 



Fig. 9. Photograph at same magnification as Fig. 8, of cross sections of gastric 

 glands of animal starved for 16 months. Note the shrinkage in size of the cells, the 

 presence of vacuoles and of minute granules in the cytoplasm of the cells, and also 

 the granules in the lumens of the glands. 



Small Intestine. Photographs 10 and 11 represent cross 

 sections of portions of the small intestine taken at corresponding re- 

 gions and shown under the same magnification. It is not difficult 

 hard to guess that photo 10 represents the less starved and photo 11 

 the more starved condition. A decrease in the amount of muscle and 

 sub-mucous tissue is just as evident although not carried to the same 

 degree as in the case of the epithehum covering the longitudinal folds. 



A more careful observation of the epithelial cells covering the 

 longitudinal folds shows that here also we have conspicuous changes. 

 The less starved animal shows the epithelial cells in their usual arrange- 



