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ABSORPTION. 



ules in the cortical alveoli, and of rounded cords in the 

 medullary part (Fig. 97). The gland-substance of one part 

 is continuous directly or indirectly with that of all others. 



FIG. 96. 



Section of a mesenteric gland from the ox, slightly magnified, a, hilus ; b (in the 

 central part of the figure), medullary substance ; c, cortical substance with indis- 

 tinct alveoli ; d, capsule (after Kolliker). 



The essential structure of lymphatic gland-substance resem- 

 bles that which was described as existing, in a simple form, in 

 the interior of the solitary and agminated intestinal follicles 



FIG. 97. 



Section of medullary substance of an inguinal gland of an ox (magnified 90 

 diameters), a, a, glandular substance or pulp forming rounded cords joining in a 

 continuous net (dark in the figure) ; c, c, trabeculse ; the space, b, b, between these 

 and the glandular substance is the lymph-sinus, washed clear of corpuscles and 

 traversed by filaments of retiform connective tissue (after Kolliker). 



