Clouston, Thomas Smith, Sir, 1840-1915 · New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 53
brainare not only more numerous but they are smaller in sizeand their walls are thinner than those of any othertissue. This means that the chemical and physical processes through which the nourishing part of the 24 THE HYGIENE OF MIND blood passes from the vessels into the cells need to bedone more… … Pig. 8.—a Cell of the Packing and BindingMaterial of the Brain, the Neuroglia. By means of those innumerable fine fibrils whichare fixed to the blood-vessels a strong networkis formed for the cells where they lie freefrom the risks of injury. Those fibrils actas guy-ropes to the capillaries and…
Mind and body · Mental Health
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