4 The Microscope. 



to cold and wet. The gun is loaded before it can be fired off 

 b}' the explosion of the cap. I have found the blood morph. 

 olog}' of rheumatism valuable in differentiating other diseases. 

 For example, most people call fugitive and wandering pains 

 rheumatism, and make out their own diagnosis for the doctor 

 beforehand. But the}^ do not know that other complaints will 

 cause such pains also. So when a woman complains thus and 

 does not have the morphology of rheumatic blood, the cause 

 will often be found to be local. When a man complains thus 

 without the morphology of rheumatic blood, the microscope has 

 traced it to neurasthenia from catarrh of the urinary tract. 



Another significant practical point found in rheumatism is 

 that there is generall}' an enlargement of the heart. The mic- 

 roscope shows that it is due to the adhesive condition of the 

 red blood corpuscles, to the strong and more numerous fibrin 

 filaments and skeins ; to the blood cr3'stals, and to the minute 

 clots that are found in rheumatic blood. 



When it is considered that the capillary circulation goes on 

 in tubes 1-3000 inch in diameter, it stands to reason that it 

 would take more force to drive the blood with rheumatic 

 morphology than when it is normal, with the red blood cor- 

 puscles clean cut, distinct and covered with neurine so that 

 they do not adhere to each other or the walls of the vascular 

 system, and thus enter and pass through the capillaries with 

 facilit}'^ and ease. The increased force needed to drive the blood 

 demands an increased amount of muscular tissue in the heart, 

 just as the muscles of the blacksmith and athlete increase, and 

 so comes the cardiac h3q3ertrophy. 



In such cases it is remarkable how readily the heart will 

 resume its normal size when the morphology of the blood is 

 restored to normality by treatment, and thus the microscope is 

 a thing of beauty and utility in the handling of rheumatism and 

 heart disease. 



Pre-emholic State. — I have found the microscope to reveal 

 the fibrinosis of embolism. For embolism is merel}'^ a plug of 

 fibrin filaments or skeins stopping up an arter3^ 



I have been able to avert this condition in child-birth by the 

 use of the micoscope. 



Is not this worth some gratitude? 



( To he continued.) 



