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CHAPTER XXIX. 



THE SPLEEN. 



296, THE capsule enveloping the spleen is a 

 serous membrane the peritoneum. It is a connective 



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Fig. 130. From a Vertical Section through the Spleen of Ape. 



a, The capsule ; 6, the trabeculaa ; c, Malpighian cof imscle ; d, artery ensheathed 

 in a Malpighian corpuscle ; e, pulp tissue. (Atlas.) 



tissue membrane with networks of elastic fibres, and 

 covered 011 its free surface with an endothelium. The 

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