350 COMPARISON BETWEEN CHYLE AND LYMPH. 



In regard to the disposition of the coloring matter which 

 is generally found in chyle, and sometimes even in lymph, 

 whether it is in a state of general solution, or attached to the 

 globules, as in the case of the blood, we literally know nothing 

 as yet. Between these two fluids there are, as may be 

 observed, many points of analogy with the blood. The chyle 

 contains new globules formed by the digestion and disintegra- 

 tion of the alimentary matter, and which are destined, when 

 they have received the last finish of assimilation in their pas- 

 sage through the lungs, to constitute the nuclei of the red 

 particles of the blood. 



The lymph also contains globules formed from the wreck of 

 the old materials of the body, as they exist in the molecular 

 state throughout the different tissues. The size of these glob- 

 ules, as has been shown by some observers, is about equal to 

 that of the nuclei of the red particles of the blood. In the 

 state in which they are found in the lymph, they are destined 

 either to be thrown out from the body, as being worn out and 

 worthless, or to be restored by the action of the lungs, to the 

 same vital condition in which they were, previous to their 

 having been deposited from the blood to constitute the atoms or 

 molecules of the different organs. 



