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INFLAMMA TION. 



the border of the lacuna, therefore in the circumference of the 

 uninfiltrated bioplasson body, the bone-corpuscle, and ad- 

 vances outward toward the periphery of the territory. We can 

 satisfy ourselves that it is not the central bone-corpuscle itself alone 

 which enlarges, but that, after a wasting or dissolution of the basis- 

 substance has taken place, leading to the freeing of the bioplasson, 



FIG. 155. BAY-LIKE EXCAVATIONS, PRODUCED BY DISSOLUTION OF THE 

 BASIS-SUBSTANCE, FROM THE TIBIA OF A DOG INJURED WITH RED-HOT 

 IRON; EIGHTH DAY OF INFLAMMATION. CHROMIC ACID SPECIMEN. 

 [PUBLISHED IN 1872.] 



B, unchanged bone-tissue, with C, the bone-corpuscles ; P, large nucleated bioplassou 

 masses, filling the bays in connection with the unchanged bone, by means of delicate fila- 

 ments. Magnified 800 diameters. 



the latter, which before the inflammation was seen only in the bone- 

 corpuscle, becomes visible throughout the whole territory. The 

 next step in these phenomena is that the bioplasson contained in 



