ABSORPTION. 



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into some of the nonvascular ones, as the cartilage of the hip-joint 

 and aqueous humor of the eye, within a quarter of an hour after 

 having been given on an empty stomach. When lithium carbonate 



Fig. 40. Lacteals of a Dog during Digestion. ( COLIN.) 



A, Lacteals of mesentery. B, Mesenteric glands. C, Efferent chyle-ducts. 

 D, Receptaculum chyli. 



taken in 5- or 10-grain doses, its presence may be detected in the 

 irine within five or ten minutes; the time for appearance is doubled, 

 )r even trebled, when the substance is taken on a full stomach. 



