THE BLOOD. lOT 



diameter of the lenses in high-pdwer objectives as used 

 by me in my experiments is no greater than the diameter 

 of a pin, still they magnify a clear field of eight inches. 

 To bring the entire drop gradually under the lens requires 

 at least one hundred movements. This will actually 

 magnify a single drop of blood to a field eight inches 

 wide and five hundred feet long. 



The blood from an average healthy person shows very 

 few microbes and white blood discs. The corpuscles are 

 circular in form and scarlet in color. With the highest 

 power objectives we are able to magnify the blood cor. 

 puscles to the size of a five-cent piece. If the light be 

 good the movement of the blood can be seen through the 

 glass, the surface undulating like the waves of the ocean. 

 The blood of a sickly person has less red corpuscles, thes^ 

 being irregular in form and serrated or star-shaped. The 

 white corpuscles are diseased and full of germs, which 

 develop into microbes and resemble a collection of fine 

 seed. Microbes in the blood generally grow in clusters 

 or groups having different shapes and colors. As a rule, 

 the more unhealthy a person becomes the greater the 

 number of microbes and white blood corpuscles we find, 

 which accounts for the pale color of the patient. Groups, 

 of microbes cause an interruption in the proper circula- 

 tion of the blood through the blood vessels, which pro> 

 duces symptoms called by the medical profession heart 

 disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, inflammations, etc. The 

 symptoms may vary greatly ; but the cause is always 

 the same — namely, microbes in the blood. The heart is 

 not at fault ; the trouble is in the blood that passes 

 through it. 



In my former business as a nurseryman and florist, I 

 made a special study and examined the sap of plants 

 and trees which I intended to use for budding or propa- 

 gation. I found that the sap of a green, healthy-look- 

 ing tree or plant is clear white or a yellowish white in 

 color, while in a sickly, yellowish-looking tree or plant 

 it is discolored, almost brown, sometimes black. And 

 this discoloration can be distinguished even in the some- 



