XVI. On the corpuscles of the blood.-Part II

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Some time since, I laid before the Royal Society a few facts, which had incidentally fallen under my notice, connected with the red particles or corpuscles of the blood. Those facts were of a character which led me to expect that the farther prosecution of the subject might be rewarded by the discovery of others; although, in a field of physiological research so often traversed from the days of Malpighi and Leeuwenhoek down to the present time, I could hardly expect to succeed in making any addition to the exact description given by some able writers of the present day, regarding the appearance of these corpuscles. But some ideas suggested during the examination of objects figured in the memoir just referred to, induced me to make the blood-corpuscles the subject of direct inquiry with reference to their mode of origin, and certain changes which they undergo. It will be remarkable if the mammiferous ovum, which, because of its minuteness and the supposed difficulty of obtaining it, had been generally considered beyond the reach of satisfactory observation, should now become the means of studying, not merely other ova, but certain processes by which nourishment is communicated, and the growth of the body effected at all future periods of life. Such, however, I think will really be the case.

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