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Show extirpating that part of the artery too. In most of the cases 01 cancer m extirpated, the disease returns, the breast, where these glands have been extn‘pate all the infected because it is almost impossible to find out or the t after becomes, 0: dematous , because ' some tnne ' glands; or~ the arm afterwards included trunks of the absorbents have been cut through, and in the cicatrix. (y' flag Glands 13/" [be Ausoitiits 13. found any where else. L47 Anatomists may yet find them in parts where I have not seen them. We are every day findingr some lusus naturze in the arteries, veins, and nerves; and, as the absorbent system allows ofa still greater variety, other glands may yet be seen than those which I have described. But I have seen no glands on the feet, none on the legs below the ham, none between the intcguments 0f the thigh and the muscles, dif- ferent from those described. Others have seen those that sometimes, as GLANDS OF THE ARMS. it would appear, accompany the femoral artery in the middle of the thigh; I have seen none between the ham and the groin. I never saw any either to six or‘seven in These are also of an uncertain number, from three the inside of the occupy they order: certain each arm, and placed in no none, on the posterior part of the trunk of the body, different from those under the integumcnts or among the muscles of the nates. I have met with of the humerus, where there arm, from the axilla to the internal condyle I have already described : nor on the anterior part, except some small ones be found on the anterior is almost constantly one gland, in each arm, to the braclnal artery. I with lly principa run They condylc. surface of that on the breasts of women, situated between the nipple and the axilla. slough out in scropliula, have known the last-mentioned glands die, and without any great inconvenience. There are none on the hands. I never saw any on the fore-arm. This winter I have seen some, for the first time, about three inches below the olecranon on the posterior side of the ulna, immediately under the skin. There are none on the outside of the cranium; none in the inside, either in the co- GLANDS OF THE FACE. the sides of There are some small glands belonging to the absorbents on c prothe face; the uppermost ofthese are immediately under the zygomati ofthe paro- cesses of the temporal bones, others lie on the external surfaces be four, tid glands, as well as on the buccinator muscles. There may live, or six of each side; sometimes there are none. There are also seve- glands about the angles of the lower jaw, and on its base, between these the angles and its ymphysis. There are constantly two behind and upon to be con- mamilla' ' processes of the temporal bones, but these are rather sidered as the uppermost of the neCk, than belonging to the head. WHERE THERE ARE NO GLANDS OF THE ABSORBEN'S. Having thus pointed out in what parts of the body the absorbent glands are chielly to be found, it will naturally be asked, Are there no glands to be met with in the other parts of the body? I do not say that they are never found .a 3-?- .3... -wwtmt. '"5"""WWW( verings or in the substance of the brain. The pituitary gland has some resemblance to the glands of the absorbents; but when cut into, it evidently consists of two substances; in which respect it resembles the renal capsula of quadrupeds: one upon the outside, which may be called cortical; and another on the inside, which, were we to compare it to the substance of the brain, may be called medullary. There is nothing of this appearance in the glands of the absorbents of the human body. No absorbent vessels have been yet traced into it; we therefore do not know whether it is or is not a gland belonging to the absorbents. \r-wyefl ;. Drsvription oftlw Silt/anon and Number .. flg‘wfli 146 |