Show the tile T ils we have arrived at a fair solution of the mystery of the spleen which la is it n blood gland and which seems to be 1 occupied in the work among other duties possibly of 0 making blood corpuscles corpus cles but until very recently the tonsils puzzled us completely the opinion was wan hazarded that they might be glands of service ter vice in curly carly life like the tile gland in the neck or the thymus gland which la Is big in infancy but decreases in size and importance as we pass away from the first epoch of our existence this la is by no means an un philosophical view to take of organs which do not app appear a r to any active duty in adult e existence x barly farly life has its own special demands a and nd duties and organs which discharge these duties would naturally decline and appear before ua us as uele js parts when the adult stage was attained illustrated london newa news |