ON THE STRUCTURE OF TENDON. 129 



24. Cohnheim, 1. c. 



25. His, Basel, 1856; ' Verhandlungen der Phys. Med. Gesellscliaft ia 



Wiirzburg,' Bd. iv. 



26. Arnold, Heidelberg, I860; 'Virchow's Archiv,' Bd. xxiv. 



27. Hoyer, ' Archiv f. Anat. und Pliys.,' 1866, Heft 2. 



28. Kolliker, ' Wiirzburger Verbandluugen,' June, 1867. 

 Schwalbe, ' Sclmltze's Archiv,' Bd. vi. 



29. Helfreich, ioc. cit. 



Strieker, ' Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akad. der Wiss.,' Bd. xii. 



30. Kessel, ' Strieker's Histologie,' Hei't 4. 



31. Tomsa, Ioc. cit. 



32. Eiigelmaini, ' Pfliiger's Archiv,' 4er Jabrgang, Heft 1. 



33. Boll, 'Beitrage zur Microscop. Anatomic der Acinosen Driisen,' 



Berlin, 1869. 



34. Lister, 'Philosoph. Transact.' 1858, p. 627. 



35. Eiigelmaiin, ' Hornhaut des Auges,' Leipzig, 1867. 



36. Lippniann, Ioc. cit. 



37. Cyon, Ioc. cit. 



38. Exuer, ' Untersucb. ijber d.Iliechschleimhaut d. Frosches, Sitzungsber. 



der Wiener k. Akad. der Wisseuschaft.,' Bd. Ixiii, Jan., 

 1870. 



On the Structure of Tendon. By J. Mitchell Bruce, 

 M.A., M.B. Loud., Demonstrator of Practical Phy- 

 siology, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School^ &c. 

 (With Plate X.) 



The doctrine of the structure of tendon has entered upon 

 a perfectly new phase since the publication of Banvier's cele- 

 brated paper on the subject.^ In this paper Banvier describes 

 the tendon of the tail of the rat as consisting of bundles of 

 fibrillar connective tissue, between which regular hollow 

 cylinders are imbedded. These cylinders are built up of 

 quadrilateral nucleated cell-plates, each of which forms 

 an element of the cylinder by being rolled up until its 

 two opposite meet ; or, conversely, each element of the 

 cylinder, when opened out, represents a quadrilateral cell- 

 plate. This conception on the part of Banvier of the 

 arrangement of the cells in tendon is, therefore, completely 

 different from those of former histologists, the majority of 

 whom held that the cellular elements found lying between 

 the bundles of tendon represent spindle-shaped nucleated 

 cells ; his description was accordingly very variously re- 

 ceived. 



* Banvier, ' Arch, de Physiologic,' 1869, ii, 471. 



