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: ...fully distended with blood, the minute particles of living germinal matter or bioplasm of the blood, as well as diverticula from the white blood-corpuscles, readily make their way out of the capillaries through the walls with the blood serum, and grow and multiply in their new position. Even red blood-corpuscles, as is ...
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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: ...fully distended with blood, the minute particles of living germinal matter or bioplasm of the blood, as well as diverticula from the white blood-corpuscles, readily make their way out of the capillaries through the walls with the blood serum, and grow and multiply in their new position. 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 f...
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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, green cloth. Vg condition. NOT ex-library. Covers slightly rubbed, contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight, with no cracking at endpaper seams. 176 pp., 24 plates of microscopical examinations, many in color.
