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Title: The physiology and hygiene of the house in which we live
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hatfield, Marcus P. (Marcus Patten), 1849-1909
Subjects: Physiology Hygiene
Publisher: New York : Chautauqua Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Mr. Suttonwell puts it, a battle between the microbes and the whiteblood corpuscles; the latter are the defending army, whoseroads and base of supplies are the blood-vessels. Re-cent experiments seem to show that the method adoptedby the white blood corpuscle to dispose of its adversary isto envelope the attacking microbe and devour it. These de-vouring white corpuscles constitute the pus or matter so freelydischarged from an inflamed wound. There is no more wonderful thing in our wonderful bodiesthan these same white eorpuseles, or leucocytes, as theyan sometimes called. Twenty-five hundred of them mustbe laid in a line together before they measure an inch, butthey are undoubtedly the most truly vital parts of our bodies.These bits of colorless matter, which occupy only one twenty-five-hundredth of an inch in diameter each, arc in incessant 104 Physiology and Hygiene. movement, not only from their being carried forward by thecurrent of the blood, but from independent motion of their
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Leucocytes. own. When watched beneath the microscope they slowlywrithe and twist like an impatient school-boy kept in afterschool. The cut well shows these changes of form, whichoccur from movements in every part of the white corpuscle,contracting and dilating, like one of the lower forms oforganisms (amoeba) which are found in stagnant water. While living and moving the structure of the white cor-puscles can be ascertained with difficulty, if at all; but bylargely diluting blood with water or weak acetic acid thevitality of these moving bodies is destroyed and they swellup, and now they are seen to be roundish sacks with verythin walls which hold within them a colorless fluid contain-ing more or less granular matter, which is gathered togetherin an irregular form in the center. Huxley believes this cen-tral body is the red corpuscle, hereafter to be described,which is set free by the bursting of the sack of the whitecorpuscle. Whether these white corpuscles bear this relation to ther

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