D URING INFLAMMA TION. 1 4 1 



are suspended in the serous part of the exudation, or 

 adhere here and there loosely to the peritoneal sur- 

 face. Many of these flocculi are found to contain 

 multitudes of bioplasm particles, and oftentimes a 

 vast number of these are suspended in the fluid, and 

 congregated here and there, forming little collections, 

 upon the surface of the delicate serous membrane, to 

 which they adhere, and where they grow. 



If the inflammatory process still continues, and in- 

 creases in severity, the vascular congestion becomes 

 more marked, and the exudation is poured out from 

 the blood more abundantly ; the masses of bioplasm 

 increase in number yet faster, and the exudation in 

 consequence appears nearly opaque. The flocculi 

 are of a yellowish colour, and look very like pieces of 

 clotted cream which stick here and there to the peri- 

 toneum covering the intestines and the inner surface 

 of the abdominal parietes. Not unfrequently the 

 surface is smeared over in places with whitish pasty 

 masses of soft cream-like matter, in the intervals 

 between which the highly-injected vessels stand out 

 with great distinctness. The masses of bioplasm 

 would now be called pus-corpuscles. Here then is an 

 interesting example of the production of pus-corpuscles 

 by the rapid growth and multiplication of particles of 

 bioplasm which were once in the blood, and intimately 

 related to the white blood-corpuscles. 



But further : if, as is well known, a little of this 

 material were to be introduced into the body, as may 



