Have they not only eaten up the bacilli, but attacked and destroyed the red corpuscles as well?
Nature has provided, in the white corpuscles as you call them--in the phagocytes as we call them--a natural means of devouring and destroying all disease germs.
Opsonin is what you butter the disease germs with to make your white blood corpuscles eat them.
They vary in size, and are often swallowed by the red blood corpuscles in which they grow, and finally develop into the above mentioned amoeboid bodies.
Apparently the white rather than the red corpuscles are the stimulating agents which bring about development, because injections of lymph which contains only white corpuscles produce the same effects as injections of blood.
Landsteiner found the remarkable fact that the sera of certain individuals of humans could hemolyze the corpuscles of certain other individuals, but not those of all individuals.
The serum of certain humans may cause the destruction or agglutination of blood corpuscles of certain other humans.
A systematic investigation of this variability led him to the discovery of three distinct groups of individuals, the sera of each group acting in a definite way towards the corpuscles of the representatives of each other group.
Groups 2 and 4 are in the majority and in overwhelming numbers, which indicates that, as a rule, the sera agglutinate the blood corpuscles of individuals of the other groups, but not those of individuals belonging to the same group.
A small quantity of albumen is always met with in the clear part of urine which contains pus; the albumen being derived from the liquor puris, the liquid by which the pus-corpuscles are surrounded.
If the pus-corpuscles have lain some days in the urine they will have undergone complete disintegration.
A sufficient quantity of chloride of sodium was added to the phosphoric acid to prevent the blood-corpuscles from being dissolved, and interfering with the reaction by their colouring matter.
Some few globules, however, are diffused throughout the supernatant urine, and impart to it a smoky appearance, if the fluid have a marked acid reaction; whereas if the reaction be alkaline the corpuscles assume a bright red colour.
A tenacious plastic liquid, forming the coagulating portion of the blood, and that in which the corpuscles float.
Immediately mixed with the soot were the ferruginous corpuscles observed by Tissandier.
By depriving the red blood-corpuscles of the power to produce ozone, it diminishes the change of tissue in the body, and thereby lessens the production of heat.
He states that under the influence of ozone, even when very largely diluted, the blood-corpuscles rapidly cohere and change their form.
In the accompanying plate the three upper groups represent blood-corpuscles taken from the human body; the three lower those found in urine.
Here we can see how certainly the presence of alcohol interferes with the red corpuscles in their task of carrying oxygen.
The rapid process of spore formation results in the breaking down of the blood corpuscles and the release of the spores, and the poisons they manufacture, into the blood.
Microscopic drawing of corpuscles of frog's and man's blood.
The color, which is found to be a dirty yellow when separate corpuscles are viewed under the microscope, is due to a protein material called haemoglobin.
The number of tactile corpuscles present in a given area of the skin determines the accuracy and ease with which objects may be known by touch.
So small and so numerous are these corpuscles that over five million are found in a cubic centimeter of normal blood.
In some of the larger vessels the corpusclesare moving rapidly and in spurts; these are arteries.
Some of the amoeboid corpuscles from the blood make their way between the cells forming the walls of the capillaries.
Colorless corpuscles at once surround the spot and attack the bacteria which cause the inflammation.
These parasites enter the corpuscles of the blood, increase in size, and then form spores.
The spores may again enter the blood corpuscles and in forty-eight or seventy-two hours repeat the process thus described, depending on the kind of malaria they cause.
Notice that after the spores are released from the corpuscles of man two kinds of cells may be formed.
Metchnikoff believed that the colorless corpuscles of the blood have somewhat the same function.
In the liver, the blood gives up its sugar, and the worn-out red corpuscles which break down are removed (as they are in the spleen) from the circulation.
In these glands some impurities appear to be removed and colorless corpuscles made.
The color of bile is due to certain waste substances which come from the destruction of worn-out red corpuscles of the blood.
These corpusclesare somewhat larger than the red corpuscles, but less numerous, there being about one colorless corpuscle to every three hundred red ones.
One chemist notes a great quantity of corpuscles--whether blood-like corpuscles or not--in the matter.
But the microscope revealed numerous globules of cobalt blue, also corpuscles of a pearly color that resembled starch.
I suspect that there were corpuscles in the substance that fell in Switzerland, but all that could be published in 1867 was that in this substance there was a high proportion of "variously shaped organic matter.
The Beta rays consist of negatively charged particles or corpuscles approximately one thousandth the size of those constituting the Alpha rays.
It has been known since Haeckel's first observation in 1858 that certain of the white corpuscles do engulf solid particles that may get into the body, and among them bacteria.
Belfanti and Carbone and especially Bordet (1898) showed the specific dissolving action of the serum of one animal on the blood corpuscles of another animal with which it had been injected.
Immunization with spermatozoa or with epithelial or liver cells gives rise to amboceptors for these cells and also for red blood corpuscles and other body cells.
A growing child should make red corpuscles in his blood at a great rate.
A deficiency of red corpuscles in the blood, which shows in anæmia, is usually caused by self-poisoning.
Is there any way, independent of diet, of increasing the red corpuscles in the blood?
On the Structure and Relation of the Corpuscula Tactus (Tactile Corpuscles or Axile Corpuscles) and of the Pacinian Bodies" "Quarterly Journal Micr.
Do you see any chance of educating the white corpuscles of the human race to destroy the theological bacteria which are bred in parsons?
Calcaromma calcarea, a Radiolarian which contained scattered in its calymma numerous calcareous corpuscles "resembling the rowels of spurs.
These older observations were, however, incomplete, for the origin of the motile corpuscles from the contents of the central capsule was not observed.
And you could have seen the corpuscles hurrying along so thick and fast that at times they blocked up the passages, and the current was checked till the heart could bring enough pressure to bear to burst the dam and send them rushing on again.
For the corpuscles of a trout's blood are considerably larger than those of most fishes, and they sometimes get "hung up," like a drive of logs sent down a stream hardly large enough to float it.
The atomic theory of corpuscles or electrons fortunately was ready to be applied to this new problem.
But if we imagine the system rapidly to rotate, the centrifugal force would enable the six corpuscles to remain in a single ring.
This is another migrant warbler that plucks the dainty white protein corpuscles from the velvety cushions at the bases of the long petioles of the Cecropia tree.
It is probable that colourless white corpuscles are given to the adult blood by the lymphatic glands.
When blood coagulates the white corpuscles sink more slowly and appear as a lighter coloured layer on the top of the clot.
The colourless corpuscles are much less numerous than the red corpuscles--only one to 300--but they are larger, and contain nuclei.
According to the theory of emission, the transmission of light energy is effected by the actual transference of light-corpuscles from the luminous to the illuminated body.
Bauer[8] thinks that lessened number of blood-corpuscles gives rise to storing of fat, owing to lessened tissue-combustion.
It is possible also that a real increase in the production of red corpuscles is brought about by repeated applications of massage, as will be seen later on.
In such cases we must suppose either that the total volume of the blood is reduced, or that the usefulness of the corpuscles is in some way impaired, or that both these troubles exist together.
The actual large increase in the number of corpuscles in the circulation brought about by massage may be one of the reasons for this.
With scarcely an exception there was a large increase in the number of corpuscles in a cubic millimetre, and an increase, though of less extent, in the hæmoglobin-content.
A final test might readily be made by examination of the blood and counting the red corpuscles before and after treatment.
The decomposed and altered blood-corpuscles are crowded into the kidneys, spleen, &c.
The oxygen is expelled, the haemoglobin destroyed, and the bloodcorpuscles dissolved.
Chloroform added to blood, or passed through it in the state of vapour, causes it to assume a peculiar brownish colour owing to destruction of the red corpuscles and solution of the haemoglobin in the plasma.
The red blood-corpuscles are in great measure broken down, and there are also effusions into the muscular tissues.
The blood-corpuscles of man are larger than those of any domestic animal inhabiting Europe.
The potassium is greater in quantity in the blood-corpuscles than in the blood serum; but, even in blood serum, the same marked differences between the blood of man and that of many animals is apparent.
A true theory of matter requires a division of things into time-corpuscles as well as into space-corpuscles.
The supposed contents of the physical world are prima facie very different from these: molecules have no colour, atoms make no noise, electrons have no taste, and corpuscles do not even smell.
The blood-corpuscles are not globular, but discoidal, i.
The coloured corpuscles are cells; they appear yellowish red under the microscope, the deep red colour of the blood depending upon the large number of them seen at once and crowded together.
These are the colourless or lymph-corpuscles of the blood.
The size and form of the bone-corpuscles and canaliculi vary in different animals, so much so that the Class or Order to which an animal belongs may be determined by reference to these particulars.
The red corpuscles are slightly stained, while the nuclei of the white corpuscles are stained a bright crimson, and the “blood plates” a deep pink colour.
Thus, the nuclei are stained violet, the cell protoplasm a much paler and warmer violet, the fibrous tissues pink, and red blood corpuscles orange or brick red.
Specimens must be made rapidly before red corpuscles have run into rouleaux.
If slide and coverslip be perfectly clean the blood will spread out into a thin film, the corpuscles lying quite flat.
If there be any delay, or if the cover-glass be not quite clean the red corpuscles will run into masses and the specimen will be useless for minute examination.
Tactile end organs may be studied in the lip or finger tips, taste buds in the papilla foliata of the rabbit’s tongue, and Pacini’s corpusclesare well seen in the mesentery of a thin cat.
Other forms of tactile corpuscles may be studied in the tongues of frogs, ducks, or geese.
Kinross would have enjoyed the notion--the need of a Tonic for Eliminating the Black Corpuscles from the Blood of Boys.
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