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alkaloid is present; but we may recall the interesting 

 fact mentioned by Buchanan in his admirable book on 

 the clinical pathology of the blood, 1 that he had noticed 

 the discard of granules (flagellation) in the cells of cases 

 of leukaemia. Possibly the leukaemias may be associ- 

 ated with the auxetic contained in globin, for the spleen 

 is a very vascular organ; and if so, it may ultimately 

 be found that leukaemia is a from of sarcoma of the 

 spleen. 



In concluding these descriptions of the researches 

 which we have been able to carry out to the end of 

 the first year and a half of the establishment of the 

 Research Department of the Royal Southern Hospital 

 at Liverpool, I wish once more to acknowledge my 

 indebtedness to all those who have helped me so 

 materially. I think that the new methods at our dis- 

 posal have been the means certainly of solving the 

 problem of the cause of normal human cell-division, 

 and possibly, if not probably, of the cause of malignant 

 cell-proliferation also. Much work remains to be done, 

 however, some of which has already been started. 



A series of more than ten "inoperable" cases of 

 cancer are now being treated by defibrinated blood and 

 by the local application of normal auxetics. Experi- 

 mentation is begun to ascertain what organisms produce 

 substances which "augment" the action of auxetics. 

 The strength of the body in normal serum which 

 restrains cell-division is being measured with a view 



1 R. J. Buchanan, The Blood in Health and Disease (Oxford Medical 

 Publication). 



