398 DR. E, KLEIN. 
The best preparations were also here obtained with the 
asphalt-benzole injection. 
32. The lymphatics of the skin are to be distinguished from 
those of the conjunctiva palpebre. 
Injecting into the subcutaneous tissue of the eyelid, it will 
be seen that the lymphatics of the skin become injected up to 
the outer free margin; the injection does not apparently 
pass into the lymphatics of the conjunctiva. 
In making sections through such an eyelid it will be found 
that the distribution of the lymphatics of the corium differs 
in no way from those of other parts; the plexus of the sub- 
cutaneous lymphatics is conspicuous by the size of the vessels 
and by their large saccular dilatations ; this plexus takes up 
lymphatic vessels situated between the bundles of the 
sphincter orbicularis. These vessels form a plexus, and are 
possessed of valves. They extend close to the dense fibrous 
tissue which forms the tarsal plate. 
In vertical sections through the eyelid there are seen 
occasionally, but rarely, fine lymphatic vessels passing 
through the tarsal plate, so as to join the lymphatics of the 
conjunctiva palpebree. 
The chief communication is, however, established at the 
margin of the eyelid, where the lymphatic vessels of the corium 
anastomose with the vessels belonging to the conjunctiva 
palpebre proper, situated behind the tarsal plate, ¢. e. between 
the layer of the Meibomian glands and the epithelium 
covering the free surface of the conjunctiva. 
These results are in perfect agreement with those 
obtained by E. Fuchs, in ‘ Medic. Centralblatt,’ 1878, 
N. 28. 
33. To obtain a good view of the lymphatics of the con- 
junctiva palpebre and fornicis the canula must be inserted 
into the proper tissue of the conjunctiva palpebre. 
When successful, the inspection of the surface with a lens 
reveals an exceedingly dense network of lymphatics situated 
very near the surface. In the human conjunctiva palpebre 
these vessels are very fine, and the plexus extends to the 
free margin of the eyelid. The arrangement of the vessels 
is very characteristic, for about the first third, that is, the 
one nearest the free margin, they form a dense network with 
small and polyhedral meshes; in the second third the 
meshes become slightly elongated, but in a more or less 
oblique direction, the vessels assuming a tendency to run 
towards the angle of the eye; and in the last third, that is, 
the one nearest the fornix, the meshes become still more 
elongated, and have an almost horizontal position, the vessels 
