Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues : viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage, the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour, and the epidermoid appendages / by Joseph Toynbee.
- Toynbee, Joseph, 1815-1866.
 
- Date:
 - 1841
 
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues : viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage, the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour, and the epidermoid appendages / by Joseph Toynbee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Fig. 3. A highly magnified view of the blood-vessels in the membrana sclerotica at the circumference of the cornea. A. The cornea. B. The membrana sclerotica. Fig. 4. A plexus of blood-vessels situated on the surface of the circumference of the cornea, between the latter and the membrana conjunctiva. Fig. 5. A plexus of vessels similarly situated to that of fig. 4. Fig. 6. Displays the manner in which the blood-vessels that ramify on the posterior part of the capsule of the crystalline lens are disposed at the circum- ference of the anterior surface of the capsule. From a human foetus of between four and five months. A. The anterior surface of the capsule of the crystalline lens. B. Blood-vessels situated on the anterior surface of the capsule at its circumference. [In the above Plates, the arteries, dilatations and veins, are distinguished from each other by the difference in the mode of engraving.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22414666_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)