Paper, 'Further note on the minute anatomy of the thymus' by H [Herbert] Watney

Description

This paper follows on from Watney's earlier 'Further note on the minute anatomy of the thymus' (Proceedings of the Royal Society, volume 31). Watney writes: 'Ciliated epithelial cells are found in the thymus of the dog: this is not the case in quite young animals, but ciliated epithelium can always be demonstrated in the thymus of a dog over thirty months old, and often in those of much younger animals. In the older dogs the ciliated cells are found lining cysts, and the cysts appeal to increase in size with the age of the animal. The ciliated epithelial cells take origin from connective tissue corpuscles. The connective tissue corpuscles forming the network in the medullary poition are in places massed together, forming concentric corpuscles of small size; in these masses small cavities are formed, and the lining cells are transformed into ciliated cells.'

Subject: Anatomy / Physiology

Received 26 August 1881. Read 17 November 1881. Communicated by [Edward Albert] Sharpey-Schafer.

A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Further note on the minute anatomy of the thymus'.

Reference number

PP/1/4

Earliest possible date

1881

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

2 pages

Format

Manuscript