330 SECRETION. 



greater number of "newly-formed or rejuvenescent blood- 

 corpuscles." 



It is not our purpose, in this connection, to discuss the 

 development of the corpuscular elements of the blood ; but 

 it is interesting to note the above-mentioned changes in the 

 blood as it passes through the liver. The physiological sig- 

 nificance of the destruction of fibrin and albumen is not un- 

 derstood, although the fact is undoubted. 



1 Op. tit., pp. 498, 499. 



