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nucleated tissue. At the edge of the wedge of blubber cells are to be seen in process 

 of destruction and some are filled with small brownish needle-shaped crystals. These 

 are probably blood-crystals (Fig. 113). 



Fig. 113. Blubber cells with blood crystals 

 at the edge of the inflammatory tissue 

 of a wound. (Part of section shown in 

 Fig. 112 enlarged.) 



Fig. 112. Transverse section of an arc -shaped wound 

 in the epidermis and the blubber beneath. 



Dr John Taylor, pathologist at St Thomas's Hospital, kindly undertook to examine 

 some of the specimens. He found that at all the exposed surfaces inflammatory tissue 

 was present. The wedge-shaped mass of nucleated tissue was inflammatory in character 



