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A , The fpinal marrow.
B, Spheroidal bodies loofely attached to the fpinal marrow.
C, In fig. 2. fpheroidal bodies, covering and clofely conneded to the nerves
ilnd to each other.
Within the fpheroidal bodies, which are tranfpareat, white ferpentine bodies
are feen, as in fig. 3.
T A B L E X X X I I .
THIS Table reprefents the nerves of the fin of a Haddock, with fpheroidal
bodies conne£led to them, magnified to fix diameters.
F I G . I.
A B, Two nerves which join and fcparate again, or form a plexus, which is
covered by fpheroidal bodies, adhering clofely to it.
B, About the middle of the fin thefe fpheroidal bodies 'are not contiguous to
each other, but between them the pure nerve is feen.
C, Near the extremity of the fin, where the nerves arc fubdivided into fmall
branches, the fpheroidal bodies are wanting.
F i g . 2.
Shows thé fpheroidal bodies feparated from the ner\'c and from each other
and magnified to fix diameters.
They confifl: of a tough tranfparent membrane or ikin, containing a tranfparent
vifcid liquor; in the centre of which one or two white or opaque ferpentine
bodies are lodged. Thefe ferpentine bodies are feen very diitindly, not only
when the nerve is recent, but after drying it.
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F I G . 3.
Reprefents the fpheroidal veficles loofened a little from each other by diffection,
and magnified to fix diameters.
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