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/ Email Print An interconnected network called the interstitium is causing a quiet revolution in medicine Grace Russell In the 17th century, physician Samuel Collins observed a mesh around each organ, which he called a “common Vest” made of “curious well-spun Threads… wonderfully interwoven with each other”. The “remanent spaces”, he noted, were filled with a “concreted Animal Liquor”.

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