THE CELL DOCTRINE. 



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prevalence of connective tissue, this view receives 

 support. Thus, it is from the connective tissue 

 corpuscles of the soft, silk-like connective tissue, so 

 universally present in muscle, that the muscular fas- 

 ciculi are primarily developed. It is from these that 

 nerve fibres take their origin. It is by the rapid 

 proliferation of these corpuscles that pus is formed, 



FIG. 13. 



Fig. 13. Purulent granulation from the subcutaneous tissue of a rab- 

 bit, round about a ligature, a, Connective tissue corpuscles, b, Enlarge- 

 ment of the corpuscles with division of the nuclei, c, Division of the cells 

 (granulations), d, Development of the pus corpuscles. x300. (From 



Virchow.) 



FIG. 14. 



Fig. 14. Interstitial purulent inflammation of muscle in a puerperal 

 woman, m. m, Primitive muscular fibres, i i, Development of pus cor- 

 puscles by means of the proliferation of the corpuscles of the interstitial 

 connective tissue. x280. (From Virchow.) 



