HEMOGLOBIN 



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The application of such a classification of stains to other tissues than 

 the blood has, however, been found to present considerable difficulties. 



According to Kite the cytoplasm of the polymorphonuclear leukocytes 

 has nothing of the nature of a cell membrane, but they are completely 

 naked, nor do they contain a spongioplasm and hyaloplasm. "The cyto- 

 plasm is a jelly in which are embedded large numbers of globules." The 

 structures usually termed 

 cytoplasmic granules are of 

 the nature of separation 

 products ; they do not grade 

 into the surrounding cyto- 

 plasm. All leukocytes un- 

 dergo also certain definite 

 structural transformations, 

 characterized by the appear- 

 ance of pseudopods chang- 

 ing into vibratile cilia. Kite 

 suggests that the protoplas- 

 mic processes may be prom- 

 inently concerned in phago- 

 cytosis. Under certain con- 

 ditions erythroplastids may FlG . 225. OUTLINE DRAWINGS OF LIVING POLY- 

 be made to protrude similar MORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES OF RABBIT, 

 processes (Jour. Infect. OM A DKOP OF BLOOD M 1 XED WI RlNGER ' s 



* 01 \ (SOLUTION TO WHICH A OMALL AMOUNT OF 



Uis., 15, 2, 1J14). HIRUDIN HAD BEEN ADDED TO PREVENT COAG- 



ULATION. 



HEMOGLOBIN I n *he course of half an hour the cells develop 



retractile undulatory processes, a, hyaline-sur- 



Hemoo-lobin is a very face phase; x> h y aline lfi y er > b and c > ciliated 

 J phase; d, flagellated phase. Leukocytes of all 



complex chemical compound classes of vertebrates undergo similar changes, 

 of iron with a globulin; it (After Kite, Jour. Infectious Dis., 15, 2, 

 gives the characteristic color 

 to the blood. It combines 



readily with oxygen to form oxyhemoglobin, a loose chemical combina- 

 tion by which the oxygen is carried from the lungs to the tissues, and 

 which gives the brighter red color to the arterial as compared with the 

 venous blood. The hemoglobin is held either in solution or in unstable 

 chemical union by the cytoplasm of the erythroplastids. It escapes from 

 these corpuscles after rupture, or it may be extracted by ether, and is 



