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coat, converging from different directions, thus accompany 

 the epiploic and coronary vessels to the glands, along the 

 greater and lesser curvature of the stomach, amounting to 

 eight or ten in number, through which they pass, and 

 thence proceed to the thoracic duct. Some are seen going 

 to the glands of the spleen, and others to those about the 

 pylorus. 



LYMPHATICS AND GLANDS OF THE INTESTINES. 



The lymphatics of the small intestine, like those of the 

 stomach, are superficial and deep, the former being situated 

 beneath the peritoneum, the deep in the mucous coat, or 

 between the latter and the muscular. Both sets enter the 

 mesenteric glands, and go, as stated, to the thoracic duct. 



The lymphatics of the large intestine are not so numerous 

 as those of the small. They have a like division into super- 

 ficial and deep, and also follow the course of the blood-ves- 

 sels. Those of the ascending and transverse colon unite 

 with the lymphatics of the mesentery; while those of the 

 descending colon and sigmoid flexure enter the lumbar 

 glands. The lymphatics of the rectum do not all go to 

 the lumbar glands part of them enter the hypogastric. 

 The lumbar glands are very numerous, and found along the 

 course of the common iliac arteries, continuous with the 

 pelvic chain, also around the aorta, ascending cava, on each 

 side of the bodies of the lumbar vertebrae, and, in fact, 

 scattered in every direction from the base of the sacrum to 

 the diaphragm. These glands not only give passage to 

 the lymphatics of the left portion of the large intestine, 

 but they also' receive all those of the pelvis, corresponding 

 to its several viscera, which, after passing through the iliac, 

 sacral, and lumbar glands, finally enter the receptaculum 

 chyli, by several large trunks which form the commence- 

 ment of the thoracic duct. 



LYMPHATICS AND GLANDS OF THE LIVER. 



The lymphatic vessels of the liver are superficial and 

 deep, and exceedingly numerous. They are readily in- 

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