LECTURE V. 



FEBRUARY 27, 1858. 



NUTRITION, AND CONVEYANCE OF THE NUTRITIVE JUICES. 



Tendons Cornea Umbilical cord. 



Elastic tissue Corium. 



Loose connective tissue Tunica dartos. 



Importance of cells in the special distribution of the nutritive juice! 1 . 



ALLOW me, gentlemen, as a supplement to what we 

 saw and discussed in the preceding lecture, to lay before 

 you a few more preparations in illustration of that pecu- 

 liar species of nutritive arrangement which we have 

 already seen to exist in various tissues, and which, I 

 hope, will appear to you of very great importance in 

 pathological processes also. 



You will remember that the last object of our con- 

 sideration was a ligamentous disc (Bandscheibe), as it 

 occurs in its most marked form in the knee-joint in the 

 so-called semi-lunar cartilages, which are really no car- 

 tilages at all. On the contrary, they possess the qualities 

 of a flat tendon, and the individual structural relations 

 which we found in them, are repeated throughout the 

 whole of the transverse section of a tendon. 



We have to-day a series of objects from the tendo 

 Achillis, both of the adult and the child, displaying the 

 different stages of its development ; and as this is, more- 



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