This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...innumerable animalculse, of the kind already alluded to, exhibiting great activity amongst the various cells in the field (8). The patient died on the next day, but a stool was examined a few minutes before death; sti: itfcaeiunethem-was highly coloured with blood and contained a great number of animalculse (Fig. lx). ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...innumerable animalculse, of the kind already alluded to, exhibiting great activity amongst the various cells in the field (8). The patient died on the next day, but a stool was examined a few minutes before death; sti: itfcaeiunethem-was highly coloured with blood and contained a great number of animalculse (Fig. lx). Some of these were tugging at the blood-cells and altering their form, distinctly pulling the pellicle or cell envelope away from the enclosed plasma. No. 1 was altered to 2, 3, and 4 in the manner described and shown in the figure. The animalculs e presented an unusual appearance; either a large clear space existed in most of them, of the same size as the blood-cells, or one or two blood-cells had become engulphed in their homogeneous substance. In some cases they were distinctly seen to be merely adherent, the little creature rushing along as if it had no burden. The next day the blood-cells had become granular, but the animalculs e were as plentiful as ever, and continued so for a fortnight, everything else having broken down. Having now given a brief account of these few classes of corpuscular bodies, and shown that -52b3Ll, X: ?one of them TMae/een to germinate iera? like the spores of fungi, the question naturally arises--Are any of them peculiar to cholera? The first class, namely, those of a fatty nature, need not be considered, for no one will The first and secmd classes of suppose them to be peculiar to the corpuscles. disease; the same may be said concern ing the presence of blood, and as 32 EFFECT OF FLUID OK BLOOD-CORPUSCLES. to the shape assumed by its corpuscles, the figure already given in connection with "chylous urine" will show that there is nothing peculiar about it, nor yet about the amo...
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