THE CIRCULATION 



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The lymphatic glands are kernel-like enlargements 

 along the lymphatics, and they contain a great many 

 lymph cells which purify the lymph as it passes through 



Fig. 66. — Chief Lymphatic Vessels and Glands of trunk. 



i, 3, Thoracic duct (emptying at 3) ; 2, receptacle for chyle (lacteals below it). 



them. The lymphatic glands are numerous in the armpits 

 and the groins. The cells in the lymph glands multi- 

 ply, and some of them are carried by the lymph into 

 the blood to become those remarkable little bodies, the 

 white corpuscles. 



