A, mesentery; B, lacteals and mesentery glands; C, veins of intestines; R.C, receptacle of the chyle (receptaculum chyli); P V, portal vein; H V, hepatic veins; S.V.C, superior vena cava; R.A, right auricle of the heart; I.V.C, inferior vena cava.

Having been acted upon by the mesenteric glands, and passed through them, the chyle flows onward until it is poured into a dilated reservoir for the chyle, known as the receptaculum chyli.

] A, 12th dorsal vertebra; B, diaphragm; C, receptaculum chyli; D, small intestines ]

Damageto, accercitus sum ut Democritum tanquam insanum curarem, sed postquam conveni, non per Jovem desipientiae negotium, sed rerum omnium receptaculum deprehendi, ejusque ingenium demiratus sum.