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ELEMENTS OF HISTOLOGY. [Chap. XLIII. 



instances Baber found the amount of blood effused 



into the cavity of 

 -a the vesicles very 

 considerable, and 

 hence it is justifi- 

 able to assume that 

 the destruction of 

 red blood-corpus- 

 cles forms one of 

 the functions of the 

 thyroid gland. 



500. III. The 

 s 11 p r a r e 11 a I 

 bodies (Fig. 168). 

 The suprarenal 

 body is enveloped 

 in a fibrous cap- 

 sule ; in connection 

 with this are septa 

 and trabeculae pass- 

 ing inwards, and 

 they are arranged 

 differently in the 

 cortex and in the 

 medulla of the 

 gland, as will be 

 seen presently. 



The cortex of 

 the gland consists 

 of an outer, mid- 

 dle, and inner 



Pig. 168. From a Vertical Section through zone, all three be- 

 the Suprarenal Body of Man. . directly con . 



1, Cortical snlistance : 2, medullary part ; a, outer . ., 



capsule ; 6, zona erlomerulosa ; c, zona fascicu- tinilOUS Wltil One 

 lata; rf, zonareticularis; , medulla; /, a large , m , , 



vein. (Eibmii, in srriekcrv Manual.) another. Ihe outer 



one is the zona 

 it contains numerous spherical, or, 



