EVIDENCE PROVING THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE 107 



Here are the dead cells which line the mouth (fig. 16), 

 found in considerable numbers in the saliva : we 

 swallow them ; man is in part a cannibal and eats 

 himself. 



Fig." 16. Cells from the lining of the mouth, seen in considerable qnantities 

 in the saliva, magnified 260 diameters. (From Quain's " Elements of 

 Anatomy," vol. i. part 2, p. 196.) 



And here is that wonderful initial object, the Human 



Fig. 17. The Human Egg from the ovary of the female, much enlarged. 

 The entire egg is a simple globular cell. The greater part of the cell is 

 formed of egrg yelk in which lies the nucleus, and inside this is the 

 nucleolus. The yelk is surrounded by a transparent covering or mem- 

 brane. (Prom "The Evolutian of Man," Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 1883, 

 vol. i. p. 122.) 



