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: ...Even red blood-corpuscles, as is well known, often pass through the vascular walls under these circumstances. In many kinds of inflammation this commonly happens. Every one who has been in the habit of making minute injections of the vessels of tissues must be acquainted with the fact that little longitudinal rents or ...
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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: ...Even red blood-corpuscles, as is well known, often pass through the vascular walls under these circumstances. In many kinds of inflammation this commonly happens. Every one who has been in the habit of making minute injections of the vessels of tissues must be acquainted with the fact that little longitudinal rents or fissures in the walls of the capillaries, quite wide enough for a red blood-corpuscle to pass through edgeways, are easily made. It is therefore quite certain that particles can pass from the interior of the capillary vessels outwards with the greatest readiness, and without the occurrence of any actual rupture of the vascular wall. There can, therefore, be no difficulty in explaining how the passage of disease-germs in the opposite direction in a similar state of the capillary wall takes place. These little particles, like other forms of bioplasm, possess inherent powers of movement, and would easily insinuate themselves through any slight fissure which existed in the capillary wall. Such particles of living matter are even capable of passing considerable distances through the interstices of various tissues, like the living germs of some parasitic organisms, which, as is well known, often traverse a great extent of tissue before they arrive at the spot where they undergo development. Again, it must be borne in mind that there are at very short intervals in the capillary walls masses of bioplasm (nuclei), which increase considerably in size when supplied very freely with nutriment. These may divide and subdivide, and give rise to collections of little bioplasts "granular corpuscles," as seen in cases of inflammation of the pia mater, and also in cases of tubercular disease of the same membrane. The walls of the vessel are weak and li...
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