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Each group of oscillating granules could only represent a 

 focus where a process equivalent to mitosis was going on. 

 The mass invading the epithelial cell shown in Fig. 26, 2, 

 contained three typical " bird's-eye bodies," and the cluster 

 of granules in violent oscillation at o' marked the spot where 

 another bird's-eye body was in process of formation. I 

 had previously concluded from histological study that 

 these bodies are thus formed, and this observation of the 

 living cells confirms my view. Bodies such as 5 and 6 are 

 met with in sarcoma and cancer as well as in syphilis. The 

 clear circles within them represent greenish globules, which 

 are formed in the same way as the bird's-eye bodies and the 

 oscillation at o, in these two bodies marked I do not doubt 

 the formation of new globules. The two smaller bodies, 

 7 and , as shown in the sketch, are not unlike leucocytes, 

 but in the living state their absolute identity in physical 

 characters with the larger bodies and their green colour 1 

 and oscillating granules distinguished them from leucocytes. 

 As to the bodies 10 and 11 the partial capsule at their upper 

 end is probably the remains of host-cells, and the evidence 

 detailed in the description strongly supports the view that 

 the curved greenish body near the group of oscillating 

 granules at o divided into two parts. 



' ' Cells of endogenous origin. ' ' These nuclear structures 

 described by Stevens in Synchytfium, by many pathologists 



1 A similar green colour is to be seen in the early intracellular stage of the parasites 

 of smallpox and in some of those of cancer, &c. It is also seen in the nuclei of human 

 epithelial cells when teased out in water, especially at the metaphase stage of mitosis. 



