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FIG. 30. a, PART OF A SECTION OF A MOLLUSCUM TUMOUR. Various 

 stages of the molluscum bodies are shown in the epithelial cells, in 

 most of them chromatin in the form of chromidial granules is present ; 

 b, a very early stage, a non-nucleated stellate amoebula apparently 

 within the nucleus of the epithelial cell ; c, two amoebulae between 

 the nucleus and the cytoplasm of an epithelial cell ; d, the molluscum 

 body is larger and consists of a plasmodium of extremely small stellate 

 amoebulae ; e, a still larger parasite ; the individual amoebulae have 

 fused together and the body is finely granular, a, x 600 diams. r 

 the rest x 800 diams. Drawing eye-piece. From Part IV. 



