Addison and the white corpuscles : an aspect of nineteenth-century biology / L. J. Rather.

  • Rather, L. J.
Date:
1972 [i.e. 1971]
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    Table of Contents Preface Introduction Page ix Chapter I: The Era of the Blastema 20 1. Addison on the white corpuscles and the 'buffy coat' 20 2. Cells, fibres and blastema 31 3. Addison's article in the Transactions of the Pro vincial Medical and Surgical Association (1843) 39 4. The Microcirculation: Current knowledge in the second quarter of the nineteenth century 49 Chapter II: Addison's Corpuscular Theory 59 1. Earlier versions of the corpuscular theory. The capillary walls 59 2. Part I of The Actual Process of Nutrition (1844). Critical reception of Addison's ideas in England 70 3. Addison's dispute with Bennett. Inflammation as a form of disturbed tissue nutrition: cor puscle versus blastema 82 4. Augustus Waller: Description of the escape of white blood corpuscles through intact capillary walls (1846) 91 5. Pyaemia, leucocytosis and leukaemia at mid- century 97 6. Addison's Law of the Morphology and Meta morphosis of Textures (1847) and his book On Healthy and Diseased Structure (1849) 113 • • VII