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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 751

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hich the capillaries are seen to be connected,are almost always veins, as may be known from the directionof the flow of blood in them from the branches [b, b) towardstheir trunks {a); the arteries, whose ultimate subdivisionsdischarge themselves into the capillary network, are for the 728… … Capillary ciiculation in a portion of the web of a Frogs foot; a, trunk of vein;b, b, its branches; c, c, pigment cells. and their contents are much more plainly seen; and it maythen be observed, that whilst the red corpuscles flow at a veryrapid rate along the centre of each tube, the colourless…

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