CHAPTER XVII 



INHIBITORY ACTION OF BLOOD-SERUM ON AUXETICS 



MEASUREMENT OF THIS ACTION THE TREATMENT 



OF SOME CASES OF CANCER BY THE ADMINISTRA- 

 TION OF DEFIBRINATED BLOOD DESCRIPTION OF 



THE CASES THE TREATMENT OF A MALIGNANT 



ULCER BY MEANS OF GLOBIN AN ATTEMPT TO 



MAKE THE CRUCIAL EXPERIMENT CONCLUSION 



IT is now (August, 1910) more than six months since 

 it was ascertained that leucocytes and lymphocytes 

 divide in response to the auxetics contained in the 

 remains of dead tissues and in globin. When this 

 fact was appreciated, the question arose as to why 

 these cells, when they are removed from the peripheral 

 circulation, had never been seen- in the act of cell- 

 division. White blood-corpuscles were discovered by 

 Hewson in 1773; in 1846 Wharton Jones first described 

 them as granular and nucleated cells (Buchanan). 

 Since then they must have been seen by every student 

 of medicine, but no one, until divisions were induced 

 in them by us, had ever seen one of these cells divide. 



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