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Marrow from Animal Bones (WITHIN the interior of bones)

WITHIN the interior of bones from a newly-slaughtered animal, there is found a soft tissue possessing salutary virtues, whether this is obtained from the cylindrical hollow of long bone shafts, or from the cancellated interior of flat bones. Ordinary marrow from the former source is a soft yellow solid, consisting of about ninety-five per cent of fat; whilst the red bone marrow from the flat bones of the skull, breast, ribs, and spine, is softer, and contains very few fat cells, but numerous marrow cells, and others resembling the nucleated red corpuscles of the unborn infant. The spinal marrow is a tissue of an entirely different character from the marrow of the bones, whether long, or flat. It is found in the perpendicular cavity running throughout the chain of the spinal column, or divisions of the backbone. Said Browning of Sordello:- 66 He was fresh-sinewed, every joint, Each bone new-marrowed, as whom Gods anoint, Though mortal, to their rescue." "Marrow," quoth Dr. Tobias Venner, in Via Recta (1620), "is much more laudable than the braine, for it is sweeter, and pleasanter, of a firmer substance, and of an hot and moist temperature; it maketh much good, and pure nourishment;