JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII, 



Illustrating Dr. J. Braxton Hicks's Observations on Patho- 

 logical Changes in the Red Blood-corpuscle. 



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1. — From ovarian cyst. 



a, a, a. Ked blood-corpuscles, nearly uatural. 



b, Ditto, stellate form. 



c, c, c. lied cornuscle, separating into "zoid" and "oecoid." J. Briicke. 



d, d, d. "Zoid" after separation. 



e, e, e. " CEcoid " after separation ; diameter ;^Q^o(J inch. 



2. — Red corpuscles after remaining in a serous vesicle in the living body. 



a, a. Red corpuscle, but slightly altered. 



b, b. Ditto, stellate form. 



c, c, c. Ditto, separating into cecoid and zoid. 



d, d. " CEcoids" after separation. 



3. — Red corpuscles after remaining iti scrum from a dead body. 



a. Red corpuscle, but slightly altered. 



b, b. Ditto, separating into " cecoid " and "zoid." 



c. Zoid after escape of cecoid. 



d, d. CEcoid separate. 



4. — From ovarian cyst. 



tf, a. Red corpuscles, natural. 



b, b. Ditto, stellate. 



c, c. Ditto, separating into "cecoid," and "zoid." 



d, d. CEcoid free ; diameter ^^qj^q inch. 



5. — Retained menses. 

 a, a. Red corpuscles. 

 V, c, c. Masses of red colouring matter of variable but all of larger size 



than the red corpuscle, of plastic consistence and darker. 

 d, d. " CEcoids " free. The separating state was not observable. 



C. — Red corpuscles shortly after having been placed in fluid fi"om a 

 hydrocele. 



a, Stellate form. 



b, b. Separating into " zoid " and " cecoid." 



c, c. CEcoid " free. 



7. — Same as fig. 6, but after remaining in the fluid twelve hours. The form of 

 the stroma of the corpuscle is very irregular. The separation of the 

 cecoid is very well marked. Diameter of the " oecoids" 4^00 ^^<^^- 



8. — Red corpuscle in contact with mucous membrane. The stellate form 

 was the only change observable. 



