728 TEE LYMPHATICS IN PARTICULAR. 



Received at first, for the most part, by these lobular bodies, the lymphatics 

 which have emanated from the tunics of the double colon afterwards join the 

 principal glands, from which they emerge in forming several large satellite 

 branches for the colic vessels. Only two or three in number at the pelvic 

 flexure, these branches are increased to ten or twelve on arriving near the origin 

 of the colic arteries. It is from the union of these vessels with those of the 

 small intestine, that the two large mesenteric trunks (Fig. 396, a, c) arise, 

 which, with the branches emanating from the sublumbar glands (Fig. 396, b), 

 form the receptaculum chyli. 



3. Glands and Lymphatic Vessels of the C^cum. 



There exists, on the track of each ctecal artery, a mcniliform series of glands, 

 farther apart from one another than those of the double colic chnin, to which 

 the vessels coming from the cfecal membranes are directed, and from which 

 several long satellite branches of the blood-vessels, that proceed to the came 

 trunk as those of the small intestine, depart. 



4. Glands and Lymphatic Vessels of the Small Intestine. 



The glands which receive the lymphatic vessels from the email intestine 

 are very large and abundant. About thirty in number, of a grey colour, very 

 compact, fusiform, often bifurcated at their superior extremity, these glands 

 are placed in the substance of the mesentery, near the origin of the anterior 

 mesenteric artery, from which those belonging to the portion of intestine 

 nearest the end of the viscus are most distant. The latter also possess, in 

 addition, fifteen special small glandular lobules, dispersed on the track of the 

 ileo-csecal artery. 



We have already noted the richness of the vascular apparatus which rises 

 from the wall of the small intestine, towards the mesenteric glands. It must 

 be added that these glands give off, at their superior extremity, large branches, 

 two or three for each, which soon coalesce to form more voluminous branches, 

 that concur in the formation of the two intestinal roots of the receptaculum 

 chyli. 



5. Glands and Lymphatic Vessels of the Stomach. 



There are two classes of lymphatic glands for the stomach : 1. Several large 

 glands situated on the small curvature of the organ. 2. A series of small 

 lobules disseminated along the great curvature to the attachment of the gastro- 

 colic omentum. 



The vessels which emerge from them " gather on the course of the gastric 

 arteries and veins, and ascend to the great tuberosity, near the trunk of the 

 coeliac artery ; there they anastomose with the lymphatics from the spleen and 

 liver, and unite into several flexuous branches, some of which open directly into 

 the thoracic duct, to which the others pass, after joining the anterior trunk of 

 the intestinal lymphatics " (Colin). 



6. Glands and Lymphatic Vessels of the Spleen and Liver. 



" The lymphatic vessels of the spleen, rising some from the interior of the 

 viscus, others from its surface, pass towards the splenic artery and vein ; they 

 traverse several groups of glands on the track of these vessels, commencing from 



