ABSORPTION OF PARTICULATE MATTER BY THE GREAT OMENTUM.
When the omentum of the dog is floated in a suspension of insoluble nickel silicate in physiological saline under circumstances precluding the possibility of lymphatic drainage, the liver removed after at least 1 hour contains nickel which must have been brought to it by way of the blood capillaries in particulate form. The blood capillaries are, therefore, a pathway for absorption of solid material but are not important in this respect.
Department of Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
A P
AP
Batchelder
M E
ME
Field
C K
CK
Drinker