. Principles of human physiology : with their chief applications to pathology, hygiene, and forensic medicine : especially designed for the use of students. The consistency of the substance contained in the fat-vesicles varies indifferent animals,according to the proportions of the organic elements thatenter into its composition. These elements are known under the names ofstearine, margarine, and oleine; the two former, which are solid whenseparate, being dissolved in the latter, at the ordinary temperature of 454 OF NUTRITION. IA spontaneous separation of these proximate principles
. Principles of human physiology : with their chief applications to pathology, hygiene, and forensic medicine : especially designed for the use of students. The consistency of the substance contained in the fat-vesicles varies indifferent animals,according to the proportions of the organic elements thatenter into its composition. These elements are known under the names ofstearine, margarine, and oleine; the two former, which are solid whenseparate, being dissolved in the latter, at the ordinary temperature of 454 OF NUTRITION. IA spontaneous separation of these proximate principles may sometimesbe detected within the human fat-vesicle. The stearine collects in the formof a small star on the inner surface of the mem-Fig. 55, c. brane; (fig. 55, b. b. b.); the elaine occupyingthe remainder of the vesicle, except where thereis an unusually small quantity of fat, when wesee a little aqueous fluid interposed between theo elaine and the cell-membrane. This offers thebest condition for the investigation of the mem-brane.—M. That the thick oil thus formed does not escapeFat vesicles from an emaciated from the fat-cells during life, may be attributed to object:-a . cell-mem- th moistenjng 0f their waHs by the aqueOUSbrane. b. b. b. The solid portion o J j collected as a star-like mass, with fluid circulating through the body. In all fixedthe elaine in connection with it, oils, which are fluid at common temperatures, a but not filling the cell. ^^ q( ^ sqM congtiwents of fat exists: theS
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