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say whether the smaller uni-, bi-, or multi-nucleated intra- 

 cellular corpuscles referred to by these authors are in reality 

 what they appear to be, namely, young and growing forms, 

 or whether they are merely the " heads " of the band-like 

 forms seen in optical or in real transverse section. If the 

 former view, viz., that of Korotneff and Kurloff, be the right 

 one, some of these young amoeba-like nucleated bodies 

 (gregariniform) have been described by other observers, 

 notably by Sawtschenko and Ruffer. 



It may not be amiss to mention here that it seems to me 

 that some, at any rate, of the " fuchsin bodies " first described 

 by Russell, British Medical Journal, 1891, belong to this 

 category; and it may also be mentioned that other of 

 Russell's fuchsin bodies are red blood-corpuscles, for in 

 some carcinomata red blood-corpuscles deeply stained with 

 fuchsin can be found between the deep epithelial cells. 

 That they are red blood-corpuscles can be recognised by 

 their size and shape, and by the fact that the capillaries of 

 the papillae contain them. But some of the larger " fuchsin 

 bodies " of Russell seem to me to be undoubtedly the 

 above parasite-like bodies.. 



There can be then no doubt that there occur in cancer 

 certain bodies which can be distinguished as separate and 

 different from epithelial cells, from nuclei, or from leucocytes ; 

 and the question is. Of what nature are they? The two 

 Russian authors consider some of them as rophalocephalus 

 carcinomatosus in its adult stage, while the smaller nucleated 

 bodies they consider as young growing gregarinous forms. 

 It seems to me, however, ihat it is not necessary to accept 

 this view of a new species, one wTiich by the way does not 

 coincide in its characters with any known gregarinse, It 

 appears more probable that the band-like pedunculated 

 knobbed nucleated mass of protoplasm represents simply a 



