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the unbroken sarcolemma sheath, which plainly 'demonstrates 

 that they are not the result of hemorrhage. 



After the inflammation abates, the medullary corpuscles give 

 rise to a more or less extensive new formation of connective tis- 

 sue, constituting a cicatrix in the middle of the muscle. Clusters 

 of medullary corpuscles may again proceed to the forming of 



FIG. 170. INFLAMMATORY CHANGES OF MUSCLE-TISSUE AFTER RECENT 

 INVASION OF TRICHINA. FROM THE LEG OF A MAN. 



PM, inflamed perimysium; P, initial inflammatory change of muscle; /, high degree of 

 inflammatory change ; L, homogeneous caky, and F, globular, masses of solid bioplasson ; 6', 

 capillary blood-vessel, with enlarged eudothelia. Magnified 600 diameters. 





striated muscle-tissue, as was first maintained by C. O. Weber. 

 If, on the contrary, the filaments connecting the inflammatory 

 corpuscles break, pus-corpuscles will be produced, and by their 



