106 THE BIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE. 



colour, lose its powers of locomotion, con- 

 tortion, irritability, food assimilation, growth, 

 and multiplication, or propagation as also its 

 power to exude through the mucous mem- 

 branes and blood vessels which the red cor- 

 puscle, though smaller, is unable to do without 

 actual rupture of the part and finally, when 

 paralyzed, to form itself into the penidllium 

 glaucum fungus which is seen in great quantity 

 in the expectoration of those dying in con- 

 sumption as well as in various parts of the 

 body in other diseases" (p. 126). 



(3.) 



THE LEUCOCYTE AND P1NICILLIUM GLAUCUM IDENTIFIED. 



"In the sputa of those recovering from 

 phthisis, this fungus gradually lessens in quan- 

 tity, and great masses of white corpuscles come 

 away instead; in this state the penidllium 

 glaucum can be clearly seen in process of 

 formation from the white corpuscles, which 

 can be observed arranging themselves in rows 

 just before cohering, and according to size, 

 forming stem or branch; some cohering in 

 part, the rest perfectly organized up to fruc- 

 tification, in fact. 



"PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF." 



" Having been consumptive myself for many 

 years until very lately, I examined my own 

 blood very frequently and minutely, and ob- 



