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or colourless corpuscles. The former are much 

 more numerous than the latter, and have a J■ello^vish-red 

 tinge ; when one of these corpuscles is seen, under a high 

 power of the microscope, lying by itself, it seems to be 

 hardly more than faintly yellow in colour, but when 



Fig. 31.— Red and White CoRprsci.ES of the Blood Magnified. 



A Moderately magnified. The red corpuscles are seen lying lu 

 rouleaux • at a and <i are seen two white corpuscles. ^ j.^.^. 



B Red'corpuscles much more highly magnified seen m f ace : C ditto 

 seen in profile; D. ditto, in rouleaux, rather more highly magnified , £. a 

 red corpuscle swollen into a sphere by imbibition of water. 



F A white corpuscle magnified same as B. 



n. Red corpuscles puckurcd or crenate aU over. 



/. Ditto, at the edge only. 



several are seen lying one on the other, the redness 

 becomes obvious. The white, somewhat larger than the 

 red corpuscles, are, as theii' name implies, pale and devoid 

 of colouration. 



