The actual process of nutrition in the living structure demonstrated by the microscope; and the renewal of the tissues and secretions, with the phenomena and products of inflammation, illustrated and established / [William Addison].

  • Addison, William, 1802-1881
Date:
1843-1845
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Credit: The actual process of nutrition in the living structure demonstrated by the microscope; and the renewal of the tissues and secretions, with the phenomena and products of inflammation, illustrated and established / [William Addison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and granules, but there were now no corpuscles remaining* entire, they had all of them been rup- tured by the alkali. On mingling another drop with a little diluted acetic acid it shrank up, would not mingle with the acid, but resumed somewhat of its former opaque white aspect; and now on submitting it to an examination by the microscope, pressed into a thin film, it exhibited as copious a fibrous structure or character as the fibrillated liquor sanguinis. A drop of partially opaque muco-purulent secretion was treated in the same way, with the same results. This experiment, which may easily be made, and requires no microscope, except to verify the exist- ence of globules in pus before, and their total absence after the addition of the alkali, sets at rest the question of the difference between pus and mucus; for if opaque pus can be changed into transparent mucus by bursting the pus globules, the inference naturally is, that the transparent parts of mucus and the isolated molecules have the like origin. The experiment, therefore, confirms the identity of mucous and pus globules, and corrobo- rates the conclusion as to the origin of the molecules and the fibrillating liquor sanguinis of buffy blood. Experiment. (Liquor Sanguinis.)—Three or four drops of the liquor sanguinis from buffy blood were placed, before the fibrillation of the fibrine, on a slip of glass. The fluid appeared of a straw or buff colour, and nearly opaque from the multitude of colourless blood corpuscles. It was well mingled with a drop of liquor potassae, and gradually it became quite clear, transparent, and colourless, in