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begun, the white corpuscle has an ugly connection 

 with fever, with glandular disease, with SCKOFULA, with 

 CANCER, in the mild increase on its normal per- 

 centage, called leucocytosis, or mild white- corpuscle 

 disease. 



Now let us turn our attention to the serious increase 

 which occasions the disease, so-called, of leucocy- 

 thaemia, only noting some important points at which 

 we have already arrived. Many of these the reader, if 

 he possess a tolerably good microscope, can verify for 

 himself by direct appeal to Nature, pending this he 

 ought to be satisfied with the teachings of the highest 

 medical authorities. 



Let us sum up what we have already learned. 



1. The red corpuscle is shaped like a quoit (dis- 

 coid), the white like a ball (spherical). 



The white embryotic or foetal blood corpuscles, which develope 

 into the red corpuscles, are simply red corpuscles not yet fully 

 grown and coloured. The white corpuscles that turn red are 

 not leucocytes. No observer ever saw an ordinary white " cor- 

 puscle" or leucocyte change into a red corpuscle. " It is assumed" 

 and is taken for granted to suit protoplasmic theories, BUT NEVER 



SEEN. 



2. The red and the white comport themselves 

 like the guinea and the one pound note in the 

 rhyme : 



" A guinea it will sink and a pound it will float, 

 I'd rather have a guinea than a one pound note." 



3. The white corpuscles are identical with those in 

 matter discharged in inflammation and suppuration 

 (pus). * c It is indistinguishable, except by locality, from 

 pus-corpuscles." 



4. The white corpuscle, in movement and habits, is 



