TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART II. 



CHAPTER X. 



BY THOMAS D WIGHT, M.D. 



MUSCULAR FIBRE. Page 128 



Involuntary muscular fibre, 128. Voluntary muscular fibre, 130. Physi- 

 ological attributes, 134. Nuclei and muscle corpuscles, 136. Conclusions, 

 137. Peculiarities of voluntary muscles, 138. Termination of muscle in 

 tendon, 139. Muscular fibre of the heart, 140. Bibliography, 140. 



CHAPTER XL 



BY EDMUND C. WENDT, M.D. 



THE BLOOD-VESSELS Page 14</ 



Capillary blood-vessels, 142. Vascular endothelium, 143. Capillaries 

 proper, 144. Genesis, reproduction, and regeneration of capillaries, 150. 

 Arteries, 151. Veins, 155. Peculiar vascular structures, 158. Blood-vas- 

 cular glands, vascular plexuses, 158. Intercarotid gland, 160. Corpora 

 cavernosa, 160. Vasa vasorum, lymphatics, and nerves, 161. Bibliography, 

 162. 



CHAPTER XII. 



BY W. R. BIRDSALL, M.D. 



THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM Page 163 



Modern views of, relative to connective tissue, 163. General histology, 

 164. Lymphatics of the mesentery, 165. Klein's studies on the omentum, 

 166. Perilymphangeal nodules, 167. Development of fat-tissue, 168. Lym- 

 phatic radicles, 168. Artificial injection of lymphatics, 169. Endothelium 

 and stomata. 169. False stomata, 170, 171. Intimate structure of lym- 

 phatic vessels, 172. Variations in shape, 173. Topographical peculiarities, 

 174. Thoracic duct, 174. Subarachnoid and subdural spaces, 175. Lym- 

 phatics of tendons, 175. Lymphatic glands, 175. Nerves of lymphatic 

 nodes, 179. Injection of a lymphatic gland, 179. Method of studying, 179. 

 Ranvier's method, 180. Other methods of injecting glands, 180. Bibli- 

 ography, 182. 



