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striation. In the first case, the result is a globular territory with 

 a central cartilage corpuscle j in the latter, a spindle-shaped terri- 

 tory, containing an elongated, spindle-shaped corpuscle. (See 

 Fig. 85.) 



There is a marked difference, however, between the territories 

 of the cartilage in very young and in fully developed animals. 

 In the articular cartilage of human embryos from four to five 



FIG. 85. HYALINE CARTILAGE OF THE CONDYLE OF FEMUR OF A NEW-BORN 

 PUP. SAGITTAL SECTION. CHROMIC ACID SPECIMEN, SLIGHTLY STAINED 

 WITH CHLORIDE OF GOLD. [PUBLISHED IN 1873.] 



V, loop of a capillary blood-vessel in a medullary canal of the cartilage : J, elongated 

 medullary corpuscles in the stage of indifference ; J5', boundary zone of basis-substance ; 

 B* t fully developed basis-substance. Magnified 800 diameters. 



months old, and that of newly born dogs and cats, the latter being 

 at birth as far advanced in development as man at four or five 

 months, we see territories only, with numerous cartilage cor- 

 puscles, between which the basis-substance is scanty, as if sprung 



