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468 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
capillary blood-vessels, convoluted so as to give
a vast
amount of surface for secretory action. Fig. 76 gives
a beautiful view of this minute capillary distribution.
Another view of the distribution of blood-vessels in
the true skin is given in the following very highly mag
nified transverse section of a portion of the skin of the
scalp, containing the roots of three hairs, in their fol
licles, with the vessels anastamosing among them.
Fig. T7.
TRANSVERSE SECTION OF 8KTN.
But we must take a magnifier of a higher power, if
we would -see the manner in which the hair itself ia
nourished by its own special capillaries,
in the following engraving.
Fig. 78.
BOOT OF A HATJS AND BLOOD-VESSELS.
as is exhibited