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unite to those of the small intestines, and empty in 

 the reservoir of Pecquet. 



3. The lymphatics and ganglions of the coecum are 

 on the course of the arteries. Their branches unite 

 to the trunk of the small intestine. 



4. The small intestine has some thirty ganglions 

 placed in the thickness of the mesentery near the 

 origin of the great mesentric artery ; they all empty 

 in the reservoir of Pecquet. 



5. The stomach has large ganglions on the small and 

 smaller ones on the large curvature. Their efferent 

 branches empty some directly in the thoracic duct, 

 some after uniting with the anterior trunk of the intes- 

 tinal lymphatics. 



6. The spleen offers several ganglions in its fissure, 

 from which efferent vessels go to the thoracic duct. 



7. Tlie liver presents a few in the posterior fissure, 

 whose vessels unite to those of the stomach and 

 spleen. 



Thoracic duct. — General confluent of all the lym- 

 phatics of the body except those of the right anterior 

 leg, right half of the head, neck and thorax. It ex- 

 tends from the first lumbar vertebrae to the entrance 

 of the thorax, beginning by the sub-lumbar reservoir 

 or cistern of Pecquet on a level with the great mesen- 

 teric artery. Course : from the reservoir passes be- 



