CONNECTIVE TISSUE. 



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bases emanate from the nucleus, and whose points blend with 

 the protoplasma of the cell. These conical spokes are clearly 

 denned only when the light rim around the nucleuses distinct. 



On carefully examining the basis-substance, a very delicate, 

 almost granular, conformation is recognizable, as if dark fields 

 were alternating with light ones, and in some places giving the 

 impression that the light fields formed ramifications, or even a 

 delicate net- work. 



With the knowledge that from the cartilage cells offshoots 

 emanate, and the basis-substance has an indistinct reticular for- 



FIG. 75. HYALINE CARTILAGE FROM THE BORDER OF THE CONDYLE OF 

 FEMUR OF A YOUNG DOG. TRANSITION INTO FIBROUS CARTILAGE. 

 STAINED WITH NITRATE OF SILVER. [PUBLISHED IN 1872.] 



S, light spaces with indistinct cartilage corpuscles, freely brandling and connecting ; E, dark 

 brown basis-substance, traversed by a light reticulum. Magnified 800 diameters. 



mation, and under the impression of pictures of inflamed carti- 

 lage, which will be dwelt upon later, I proceeded to stain the 

 cartilage with nitrate of silver. 



I prepared the articular extremity of the femur by removing 

 the muscles and severing the shaft at a certain distance above 



