234 ON THE PATHOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGY OF SOME ANIMAL FLUIDS. 



carditis, is composed of transparent, very thin fibrils, running parallel, 

 or for the most joined into fasciculi, and also of the smallest molecules 

 and globules, exceeding by twice or thrice the diameter of those of the 

 blood. Plate 10, fig. 67. 



The hard, plastic, greenish-yellow exudation from the mucous surface 

 of the uterus, is also composed of soft, parallel fibrils, intermixed with 

 numerous molecules, and the globules of pus are seen equally distri- 

 buted among the fibrils. Plate 10, fig. 66. 



The plastic yellowish- white exudation formed on the external surface 

 of the heart for three or four days (the villous heart), consists of soft, ge- 

 latinous fibrils, united into fasciculi, and running in a parallel direction, 

 which enclose within themselves a few white transparent globules, ex- 

 ceeding by twice or three times the diameter of those of the blood , and 

 filled by the smallest molecules. Plate 10, figs. 68, 69. 



The white, somewhat rough, plastic exudation of the villous heart, 

 formed from the sixth to the eighth days, is composed of roughish, single 

 fibres, running flexuously. Plate 10, fig. 70. 



The hard, white plastic exudation of the villous heart, formed from 

 the fourteenth to the twenty-eighth day, is endowed with hard fibres, 

 forming oblong and round areolae. Plate 10, fig. 71. 



OF THE WHITE PELLUCID FLUID SEROUS EXUDATION. 



The limpid serous fluid of a bladder, formed by the application of a 

 blistering plaster, investigated by the microscope, consists of two con- 

 stituent parts, viz., a perfectly fluid part, and a few white globules float- 

 ing in it. These globules are diaphanous, and scarcely exceed twice 

 the diameter of those of the blood. They are invested with a very fine, 

 smooth envelope, which includes the smallest molecules. Here and there, 

 also, globules occur destitute of all covering, and endowed with naked, 

 very small molecules. Plate 10, fig. 78. 



The limpid serous fluid received from the papulae of modified variola, 

 contains, besides the larger globules, others in no respect different from 

 those of the serum. Plate 8, fig. 29, 



The limpid serous fluid extricated from recent infiltration of intestine 

 of abdominal typhus, contains the same globules of serum. Plate 10, 

 fig. 77. 



The limpid serous fluid filling the interstices of the fibrils of the 

 plastic exudation of the villous heart, contains globules not differing 

 from those of the serum. Plate 10, figs. 67, 69. 



