Volume 2

The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B.

  • Hassall, Arthur Hill, 1817-1894.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    separated from each other, the former being at its origin rather large and without any defined margin: it soon however shrinks in size, and assumes a regular oval shape. Crescentic bodies, occasionally met Avith in the blood of the frog, and probably of A'^egetable nature, are also represented in the figure. Fig. 5. The red blood corpuscle of the adult frog, in different stages of dissolution. In examining a drop of the blood of a full-groAvn frog, a much greater uniformity in the size of the red blood discs will be observed, than exists in that of the very young animal, fcAver corpuscles being in process of development in the former than in the latter. Fig. 6. Blood corpuscles of the adult frog united into chains, an arrangement which appears to be intimately connected with the coagulation of the fibrin.