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unmixed, but that on the contrary frequently two, and 

 sometimes all three, of them exist simultaneously in the 

 same kidney. 



Amongst the other preparations which I place before 

 you I have, especially on account of its distinctness, chosen 

 the amyloid disease of the lymphatic glands. In these 

 the state of things is much the same as in the spleen. "We 

 see on the one hand the small arteries, on the other the 

 essential substance of the glands (i. e., the mass of minute 

 cells which fill the follicles), undergoing the change. You 

 will remember from a previous occasion (p. 208, Fig. 61), 

 that there are follicles lying beneath the proper capsule 

 of the gland, and that these follicles are made up of a 



FIQ. 122. 



a 



FIG. 123. 



Fig. 122. Amyloid degeneration of a lymphatic gland, from a drawing made by 

 Dr. Fripp of Bristol, a, 6, b. Vessels with greatly thickened, shining, infiltrated 

 walls, c. A layer of fat-cells at the circumference of the gland, d, d. Follicles with 

 their delicate reticulum and corpora arnylacea. 200 diameters. Compare Wiirz- 

 burger Verhandlungen, Vol. VII, Plate III. 



Fig. 123. Isolated corpora amylacea of different sizes, some of them ruptured, 

 from the gland represented in Fig. 122. 350 diameters. 



