THE SKIN AND THE KIDNEYS 



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FIG. 128. Vertical Section of the Back. (Posterior view.) 



The spinal column below the twelfth dorsal vertebra at A has been removed, as 

 well as the various layers of the great muscles of the back. The two kid- 

 neys with the renal arteries and veins are plainly shown, in their normal 

 positions. The relative positions of adjacent vessels and organs with their 

 names printed upon them are also shown. B, portion of the diaphragm on 

 the left side; C, receptaculum chyli; Z>, a part of the small intestine on 

 the left side. 



