DEPOSITS IN LYMPHATIC GLANDS AFTER TATTOOING. 219 



conveyed beyond the lymphatic glands and make their 

 way to more distant points, or that they deposit them- 

 selves in any way in the parenchyma of internal organs. 

 No, the mass always settles in the nearest group of 

 glands. On examining the infiltrated glands it is easy to 

 convince oneself that the size of the deposited particles 

 is less than that even of the smallest pus-corpuscle. 



FIG. 67. 



In the object which I place before you (Fig. 67) the spot 

 has accidentally been hit upon, at which the lymphatic 

 vessel enters into the gland, and whence, enclosed within 

 the trabeculse of connective tissue which are prolonged 

 from the capsules between the follicles, it proceeds in a 

 spiral form, and finally breaks up into its branches. Where 

 these pass into the neighbouring follicles, which are here 



Fig. 67. Section through the cortical substance of an axillary gland from an arm, 

 the skin of which had been tattooed. A large lymphatic vessel is seen entering 

 from the cortical substance, gently winding and breaking up into fine branches. 

 Round about are follicles, for the most part filled with connective tissue. The dark, 

 finely granular mass represents the deposit of cinnabar. 80 diameters. 



