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sense, or subserve the proper conservation of the organs 

 themselves, as the nerve-cells of the glandular organs, and of 

 the mucous membranes ; whilst the physiological functions, 

 properly so termed, of the organs, depends upon the con- 

 nexion of the nerve- cells with the central portions of the 

 nervous system. 



V. That although anatomical differences disappear in the 

 peripheral capillary nervous plexus, from the circumstance 

 that the axial cylinders become fused together, this is not 

 the case with their physiological distinctness, which remains 

 imaffected ; a condition similar to that which exists in the 

 capillary blood-vessels. 



