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reach the thicker trabecula3 (fig. 107, a) of connective tissue, 

 then indeed non-epithelial connective-tissue corpuscles will con- 

 tribute their mite to the additive enlargement of the nodule. 

 But the size to which the nodule must needs attain before this 

 can possibly occur, proves what the resources of epithelial 

 growth can do without anv extraneous help. 



