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ft. A dense cellular coat, and a lining membrane con- 

 tinuous with that of the veins. There is no fleshy fibre ob- 

 servable in the absorbents. 



Q. What are the peculiarities of this internal lining 

 membrane of the absorbents? 



ft. It is in the dead body bedewed by an unctuous, and 

 in the absorbents of the external surface of the lungs fre- 

 quently covered with a white matter which resembles 

 plaster. 



Of the Lymphatic Glands. 



Q. What peculiarities attend the situations of the lym- 

 phatic glands? 



Jl. They are most abundant where cellular texture 

 abounds, and they are more numerous as they approach 

 the common trunks. 



Q. What is the colour of the glands? 



ft. They are red in childhood, gray in adult life, and 

 yellowish in old age. 



Q. At what period of life are they most developed? 



ft. They are more fully developed in childhood; they 

 are least so in old age. 



Q. These glands have a common and a peculiar texture 

 what are they? 



ft. The common texture is a loose and dense cellular 

 investment; the peculiar texture is a pulpy matter, of 

 greater or less density, resembling the pulp of the nervous 

 ganglions. 



