388 OP THE MILK. 



610. The influence of the anastomatic sympathy be- 

 tween the internal mammary and epigastric artery,* 

 although formerly overrated,t is evinced by the change 

 which the latter experiences in its diameter during preg- 

 nancy and suckling. 



611. Both the uterus and mammae appear to have a 

 kind of affinity for the chyle, observable in many dis- 

 eases and nearly always in new-born children. 



612. The breast of women,;}; belonging to the most 

 characteristic marks of the human female both by its 

 form during the flower of age and by the longer conti- 

 nuance of this form after the period of suckling than 

 occurs in any other female animal, is composed of a 

 placentiform series of conglomerate glands, divided by 

 numerous furrows into larger lobes, and buried in a 

 mass of fat ; the anterior part swells out particularly 

 with a firmer description of fat over which the skin is 

 exceedingly thin. 



613. Each of these lobes is composed of still smaller 

 lobes, and these of acini, as they are termed, to which 

 the extreme radicles § of the lactiferous ducts adhere, 

 deriving a chylous fluid from the ultimate twigs of the 

 internal mammary arteries. 



614. These radicles, gradually uniting, || form large 

 trunks, corresponding in number with the lobes, — about 



* Eustachius, Tab. xxvii. fig. 12. 



Haller, Icon. anat. fasc. vi. tab. i. 



T Afc G. R. Boebmer properly remarks, De consensu uteri cum mammis causa 

 lactis dubia. Lips. 1750. 4to. 



X A. B. Kfllpin, De striatum mammarum. Griphisw. 1765. 4to. 



Atban. Joannidis, Physiologic mammarum muliebrium specimen, Hal. 

 1801. It... 



§ ▼. C. A. Cavolo'stwo plates at tbe end of Santonin's posthumous tabU-<. 



|| v. Mich. Girardi, Tab. i. annexed to the same plates of Santorini. 



