282 HUMAN ANATOMY. 



The milk is secreted by the swelling and bursting of the 

 cells in the vesicles. 



The first secretion at the commencement of lactation is a 

 thin, yellowish fluid, the colostrum, the peculiarity consisting in 

 the large, granular colostrum-corpuscles, or corpuscles of Gluge, 

 the entire, unruptured, secreting cells. 



