. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. Structure of a lobule of the Ultimate glandular vesiclesof the mamma. blood from the internal mammary, axillary, and intercostal veins form round the nipple a circle or plexus, which is usuallycalled the circuius venosus of Haller. In the latter months of preg-nancy, the pressure of the gravid uterus tends, as Mr. Nunn has pointedout, to increase from mechanical causes the quantity of blood in thesevessels, and thus to promote the secretion of the gland. Fig. 21, from Henle, repres
. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. Structure of a lobule of the Ultimate glandular vesiclesof the mamma. blood from the internal mammary, axillary, and intercostal veins form round the nipple a circle or plexus, which is usuallycalled the circuius venosus of Haller. In the latter months of preg-nancy, the pressure of the gravid uterus tends, as Mr. Nunn has pointedout, to increase from mechanical causes the quantity of blood in thesevessels, and thus to promote the secretion of the gland. Fig. 21, from Henle, represents a section from a small lobule of thegland, magnified 60 diameters. 1, shows the stroma of the connectivetissue which supports the glandular structure; 2, terminal ramuscule 58 FEMALE ORGANS OP GENERATION. [CHAP. of one of the gland tubes; 3, glandular vesicles. Fig. 22 shows severalof the glandular vesicles, magnified much more highly, about 200diameters. The secreting epithelial cells which line the vesicles arehere represented, while the cavities contain a certain number of milkglobules. In the male, the mammary glan
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