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THE SALIVAKY GLANDS, BY E. F. W. PFLUGER. 



somewhat striated protoplasm. These fibres present the same 

 appearance as the so-called protoplasmic processes of the nerve 

 cells of the cerebrospinal organs. 



c. A third kind of pale fibre is composed of bundles of some- 

 what tougher, more highly refractile, very fine (0'0005 milli- 

 meter) fibrils, which likewise lie in a tube of connective tissue 

 containing oval nuclei. These are liable to all the objections 

 that have been raised on various sides against the nervous 

 nature of the fibres of Remak. 



- Fig. 77. 



Fig. 77. The preparation was taken from the submaxillary gland of 

 the Ox, and was blackened with perosmic acid. Magnified 590 diameters. 



The medullated fibres, which are present in extraordinary 

 numbers in all parts of the salivary glands, and of all sizes 

 down to those of only - 0015 millimeter in diameter, present 



