Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . 298 HANDBOOK OT HYDROPATHY. According to some who have carefully examined with the microscope itscomponent threads, they consist of minute particles of a globular figure; othermicroscopical observers regard the cellular threads as coagulated or condensedanimal substance, perfectly amorphous (without form). Every part of this tissue is penetrated by arteries., veins, absorbents, andnerves, endowing it with properties truly vital, though in a less degree than anyof the other primary tissues ; and
Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . 298 HANDBOOK OT HYDROPATHY. According to some who have carefully examined with the microscope itscomponent threads, they consist of minute particles of a globular figure; othermicroscopical observers regard the cellular threads as coagulated or condensedanimal substance, perfectly amorphous (without form). Every part of this tissue is penetrated by arteries., veins, absorbents, andnerves, endowing it with properties truly vital, though in a less degree than anyof the other primary tissues ; and varied and important as the uses are which itserves in the economy, the most manifest, though certainly not the only ones,are those which depend upon its physical properties of cohesion, flexibility,extensibility, and elasticity. 1 1, a portion of adi-pose (fatty) tissue; 2,minute bags contain-ing the fat; 3, a clusterof the bags, separatedand suspended. The tissue which contains the fat, termed the adipose, is the second form ofmembrane; it is obviously a modification of the cellular, from which it differs,both in the magnitude of its fibres, whence it constitutes a tougher and coarserweb, and in their arrangement; for it is so disposed as to form distinct bags inwhich the fat is contained. Adipose tissue consists of rounded packets,separated from each other by furrows; _ each packet is composed of smallspheroidal particles; each particle is again divisible into still smaller grains,which, on minute inspection, present the appearance of vesicles filled with theadipose matter. The cells of the cellular tissue, as has been shown, are continuous over the wholebody; but each adipose vesicle is a distinct bag, having no communication what-ever with any other. The cellular tissue is universally diffused; but the adiposeis placed only in particular parts of the body; principally beneath the skin, andmore especially between the skin and the
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