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AXIMAL PHYSIOLOGY. 



[LESSON 32. 



fully lifted out of the vessel containing it, on the palms of both 

 hands, five beautiful, minute jets of water, crossing each other in 

 various directions, will frequently be seen ; so great is the quantity 

 of water contained in the respiratory apparatus, and so small the 

 apertures, that the streams will continue steadily to flow for half an 

 hour. 



547. The intestine, which, as before described, also terminates in 



FIG. 194. 



Respiratory organs, Cucumana frondosa. 



the cloaca, is shown at 5 / the respiratory tubes, with their ramified 

 branches, at c. These organs, like the alimentary canal, are confined 

 to a given situation in the interior of the body : the latter, by means 

 of the mesentery, the former, by a series of round, white, tendinous 

 chords (e, e). 



Authors who have only seen such a preparation, and know nothing 

 of its connections by manual examination, have greatly mistaken the 

 character of these tendons ; thus Grant (and others) describes them 



