. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Fig. —Wax Model of Glomerulus. Same enlargement and viewas Fig. 3056. The left lateral group of capillaries is separated fromthe median group and turned back, exposing the interior of theglomerulus. A. A short section of a capillary of the median groupis removed to show the course of the deeper lying capillaries.(Johnston.) the straight collecting tubes of the pyramids, breakingup into capillaries around these tubes. The inti-alobu-lar arteries in the cortex


. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Fig. —Wax Model of Glomerulus. Same enlargement and viewas Fig. 3056. The left lateral group of capillaries is separated fromthe median group and turned back, exposing the interior of theglomerulus. A. A short section of a capillary of the median groupis removed to show the course of the deeper lying capillaries.(Johnston.) the straight collecting tubes of the pyramids, breakingup into capillaries around these tubes. The inti-alobu-lar arteries in the cortex send branches to the glomeruli,the arteria; glouierulifeite, the afferent vessels entering I REFEREXCE HA^DBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. the glomerulus and dividing intoseveral biunches, ?nhicbrediride and break up into a nettrork of auastomosiugcapillaries, as described hy Jcilinstou. This arraugenientis shown diagTammatically iu Fig. 3058 aud more exactly. Fig. 3058.—Dlafrram of a Malpfprhian Body Showing the Afferent andEfferent Vessels aboTe, witli tiie Tuft. The reflection of the cells ofBowmans capsule over the vessels is sliown on the left; on theright, the cells are shown in the Uat; the neck and part of a convo-luted tube are shov\-n helow. The space between the tuft and thecapsule is drawn wider than normal. In Figs. , , representing Johnstons models of thehuman glomerulus. He describes a network of reticulartissue arising from the membranes surrounding the glo-merulus anil forming the framework of the glomerulusin the meshes of which are found the capillaries andfine branches of the aflerent artery. The blood collectsinto small branches which unite to form the efferenlartery, which runs for a variable distance aud iiuallybreaks up into a second system of capillaries around theconvoluted tubules. The intralobular vessels ojven intothe glomeruli only after forming an arch, so that theblood passing through the glomerul


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