THE MICROSCOPE. 



child in the quarters, and I suspected something might be wrong. 

 Found the child "laid out" for burial, but life not extinct. Sent im- 

 mediately for my family physician, who did not get out to the plan- 

 tation till three hours after (lo p. m.), when the child was dead. 

 She drank the whisky about 7 a. m. Before leaving the child, I 

 directed friction, fresh air and warmth to body. Bound a string 

 around little finger of left hand, and got blood by puncturing about 

 one-quarter of an inch below the nail, and immediately put it under 

 the microscope on reaching my room, about four acres distant. Part 

 of the blood I let dry, the other I kept moist by water, but seeing 

 that both specimens acted alike after three-quarters of an hour, I let 

 it all dry. I used no cover glass for the first. Thought only to take 

 a casual look, and then be done with it; but second, 

 finding unusual changes going on, I was fearful of 

 altering these changes mechanically. After about three hours all 

 changes ceased. At first I used a glycerine front, dry one-fourth B. 

 and L. (one with which I've had good views of number 16 MoUer 

 dry plate) with B and one-half inch solid eye-pieces. As the 

 corpuscles came in focus somewhat like fig. i, (not concentric waves 

 to circumference, however,) I laughingly said to myself, "none of 

 your tricks Mr. Illumination, (Note, I sometimes talk to myself 

 when at such work) I'll have none of your faulty rings" but a second 

 glance showed me these rings were not tricks of Mr. Illumination, 

 and right here the optical interest got up to high pressure. I cross 

 questioned my ^ with a dry adj. ^ of 115° a lens of good definition, 

 also with a ^ dry non adj. Beck's 120" all of which gave support 

 and confirmation to the language of the |. With the | carefully 

 adjusted, eye-piece and tube arranged for approximating from x 

 1000 to X 1500, 1 watched the interior contractings until they ceased. 

 My family physician, arriving before I put up work, took a look, re- 

 marking it was a sight he had never seen or read of. The color of 

 normal red corpuscles under correct manipulation I consider to be 

 as you describe in your manual with the addition of a breath of blue 

 and violet playing over them, but in this case they were a reddish 

 brown. 



The waves or bands were concentric to the external mass 

 which varied greatly in different corpuscles. I saw 4 and 5 gradu- 

 ally contract internally to 7 and 8 leaving b. (between a. and c.) of 

 diagratp 15 transparent, the contracted b. becoming denser 



