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he Microscope ^ 



ANT) ITS RELATION TO 



Medicine and Pharmacy. 



VOL. III. | 



WHOLE NO. 13 f 



Ann Arbor, April, 1883. 



No. 1 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Original Communications. 



On a Parasite on or in the Red Blood 

 Corpuscles of a Terrapin i 



Malassez's Improved Compte-Glo- 

 hules. By C. H. Stowell 4 



Bacillus. By. J. M.Adams 5 



Crystals of Sodium Chloride. By E. 

 E. Jackson 5 



The Bioplasson Theory of Heitzmann. 

 A Review of Hcitzmann's ''Micros- 

 copical Morphology." By C. II. 

 Stowell =; 



Resolving Amphipleura Pellucida 

 with Central Light. By B. W. 

 Thomas 5 



Laboratory Notes. By C. H. Stowell. 12 



Journal de Micrographie. Views of 

 the Editor on the Germ Theory in 

 Disease. Announcement of a Scries 

 of Papers by Prof. Balbiani. Ab- 

 stracted from the French by Lorn 



Hall, A. M., M. D 13 



Our New One-Fiftieth Objective. By 



C. H. Stowell ' , 4 



The Microscope in Medicine. By E. 



E. Jackson 16 



Vegetable Fells and Striated Muscle. 17 



Editorial Department 18 



Seleetions 21 



Items 



Reviews 



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CO v igin a I (!> m mxx n k a I i c n : 



ON A PARASITE ON OR IN THE RED BLOOD CORPUS- 

 CLES OE A TERRAPIN. 



IN making a series of investigations on the blood of terrapins, we 

 accidentally discovered a worm-like parasite in the blood of the 

 sternothrerus odoratus, of which we give a number of drawings 

 from the camera lucida, finished and colored by (i. A. Peple, Esq., 

 secretary of the Richmond .Microscopical Society. 



In preparing the blood we employed the following method: 

 The blood was drawn directly from a wound on the leg of the 

 animal to the slide, and immediately spread in a very thin film by 

 quickly drawing over it the straight edge of a smoothly-ground 

 glass slip, and then exposed to the fumes of a i per cent, solution 

 of osmic acid for 10 minutes. The blood was then stained and 

 mounted in a solution of hematoxylin in glycerine, formulae of M, 

 J. Renaut. Archives de Physiologie, August, 18S1, p. 640, ft. 



Unfortunately we have only one slide of the blood from this 

 animal, as it was sacrificed for the purpose of making a preparation 



