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182 DETAILED SYNTHESIS. 



opening through the skin above, introduced the end of a pipe, and forced 

 in air from time to time, gradually distending the skin to a wonderful 

 degree. 



Remark. Sometimes the chest is injured in such a manner that a 

 communication is established between a lung and the areolar texture, 

 in part constituting the walls of the chest ; at each respiration, a little 

 air will be forced into the areolar texture, until, in some cases, that of 

 the whole body will be distended, producing a very grotesque appear- 

 ance. As soon as the passage of the air from the lung is checked, that 

 which is hi the areolar texture will be absorbed by the Blood, and the 

 distension will diminish as rapidly as it was produced, without causing 

 any unpleasant consequences to the injured person, thus showing the 

 inert or passive character of the areolar or connective texture. 



160. IT THUS APPEARS that* the Areolar texture 

 loosely connects and binds together all parts of the 

 Body, and exists from head to foot ; and it will be found 

 that as we go through the skin its meshes increase till 

 they become those of the Areolar texture. 



161. THE SINEWY TISSUE ALSO EXISTS as a part of 

 the two tissues next to be mentioned. 



162. THE SINEWY TEXTURES ARE COMPOSED wholly 

 of white or wholly of yellow, or of both, in varying 

 proportions. 



163. Ittus. At the knuckles the skin is composed mostly and at 

 the elbow almost wholly of Yellow, while on the front of the arm the 

 skin is chiefly composed of White, Tissue. 



164. IT is EVIDENT that a large amount of Sinewy 

 Tissue will be required in the Body ; and in fact more 

 than one half of its entire weight is composed of this 

 tissue, so that some authors have described the Body as 

 being composed of Sinewy Tissue wrought with a mul- 

 titude of meshes of various forms, in which .the other 

 parts were packed ; and indeed, if all the other tissues 

 could be dissolved out, the form and size of every organ 

 would yet remain fully represented by the Sinewy Tis- 

 sue, so much is it the framework of every part. 



160. What ? 161. Where does -? 162. How -? 163. How knuckles and 

 elbow composed? 164. What ? 



