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3. The bones of the organs that constitute the sides and back of the thoracic cage are satisfactorily accounted for in the next two paragraphs. The only bones that remain to be accounted for are those of the organs that constitute the front, that is, the sternum and the costal cartilages (Figs. 14 and 16). It may, therefore, be justly concluded that these must account for the numbers mentioned by the Indian anatomists. The cartilages, we may remember (§ 30), are reckoned by them as ‘tender’