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ABSORBENT SYSTEM. 



Q. What do you mean by the absorbent system? 



/?. It is a series of vessels, .uniting in trunks, and en- 

 larging occasionally, so as to form what are improperly 

 termed glands. 



Of the Msorbent Vessels. 



Q. Where do the absorbents arise ? 



/?. They take their origin from every part of the body. 



Q. Where do the trunks of this system of vessels ter- 

 minate? 



#. In the vena cava of the black blood system. 



Q. Why are the enlargements of these vessels impro- 

 perly called glands? 



*/2. Because they do not pour out fluids by excretories 

 arising from them. 



Q. What is the general division of the absorbents? 



#. Into the exterior and interior absorbents. 



Q. What is the difference between the exterior and in- 

 terior absorbents? 



rf. The external absorbents do not take up the fluids 

 exhaled; those on the skin do not absorb the perspiration ; 

 nor do the mucous absorbents take up the pulmonary or 

 gastric exhalations. They absorb foreign matters. The 

 internal absorbents are constantly engaged in taking up 

 what is exhaled. 



