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90 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
than others. Strong, healthy blood is longer in going
through these processes than weak, sickly blood. The
human blood that is made from puro vegetable food,
will keep whole days longer than the foul blood made
by living on the flesh of other animals.
The assimilation of nutritious matter, the formation
of the primitive blood globules, and their vitalization,
appear to take place in the lacteal and lymphatic glands,
Fig. 23.
LYMPHATICS OF THE SMALL INTESTINES.
The glands are enlarged by disease. 1. The thoracic duct through
which the lymph passes up to the fork of the left vena innominata.
under the influence of the nerves of organic life. In
this system we have matter brought from all parts of the
body, passing through great numbers of these glands;'
we have also the matter absorbed from the intestines,