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CONNECTIVE TISSUE. 



THE STRUCTURE OF THE THYROID CARTILAGE. BY L. ELSBERG.* 



Longitudinal sections through the lateral plates of the thyroid cartilage of 

 a man of about twenty-five years, hardened in chromic acid and stained with 

 an ammoniacal carmine solution, exhibit with low powers of the microscope 



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(150 to 200 diameters) the following : The cartilage corpuscles, either single, 

 in pairs, or in groups of from three to six, or even more, are imbedded in a 

 basis-substance which, for the most part, is homogeneous-looking or indis- 



* " Contributions to the Normal and Pathological Histology of the Cartilages of the 

 Larynx," Archives of Laryngology, vol.il., 1881. 



