302 CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. 



The deep absorbents accompany the vessels, and, emerging 

 with them at the fissure, are joined with the superficial; they 

 all then run along the emulgent vessels, and have frequent 

 anastomoses with those of the testicles or ovaries, and with 

 those of the capsulae renales. These absorbents may be filled 

 by putting a pipe into the excretory duct of the kidney. 



The absorbents of the Cajpsulae Renales unite to those from 

 the kidneys, and, therefore, terminate with them in the lumbar 

 glands, 



Of the Absorbent Glands of the Abdomen. 



The cavity of the abdomen contains many more glands than 

 any other region of the body, on account of the very great ex- 

 tension of the serous system in it, of the functions exercised by 

 its viscera, and of its being traversed by the absorbents of the 

 lower extremities. Many of these Glands have already been 

 described under the denomination of hypogastric, and external 

 iliac; in addition to which there are a few between the laminae 

 of the mesorectum in front of the sacrum. 



The Mesenteric Glands are exceedingly numerous, and 

 amount to between one and two hundred; they begin at an 

 inch or two from the small intestines, and may be traced to the 

 root of the mesentery, being placed between its layers, on the 

 convex side of the upper mesenteric artery. As the intestinal 

 canal is longer in some individuals than in others, they are pro- 

 portionately more numerous. Their largest size seldom ex- 

 ceeds that of an almond: those belonging to the jejunum are 

 rather more developed than such as belong to the ilium, and 

 they all augment in size as they approach the root of the me- 

 sentery. 



The Glands of the Mesocolon are placed between true laminae 

 of this membrane, near the intestine; they receive the absorbents 

 from the large intestines, are much smaller than those of the 

 mesentery, and their number seldom exceeds fifty. Some few 

 of them are situated near the root of the mesocolon. They are 

 by no means so disposed to tumefaction from scrofulous afTec- 



