386 STRUCTURE AND PATHOLOGY OF KIDNEY AND LIVER. 



vein, artery, and duct. This division of the areolar texture is 

 in certain respects the most important pathological element 

 of the organ. It is the seat of the more important inflamma- 

 tions, of the effusions of pus and lymph, of chronic inflamma- 

 tion, and of the fibrous lymph, producing cirrhosis and atrophy, 

 and probably of the heterologous formations, or cancers, which 

 attack the organ. 



