396 On the Connective Tissue of the Tongue in Inflammation. 



and active amoeboid movements. C, C are connective-tissue corpuscles, of 

 vrliich one is of such remarkable form and appearance that the least change in 

 it could be very readily observed. It contains a conspicuous vacuole, and it 

 sends its processes along the fibrils of elastic tissue, as formerly described. N 

 is a small nerve-trmik. M, striated muscular fibres. L, L are leucocytes — 

 migratory colourless blood-corpuscles. 



This body was kept under observation for eight days, during the whole of 

 which emigration continued. It remained absolutely imchanged, with the 

 exception that the vacuole varied somewhat in size. Thus on the fifth day it 

 became somewhat more distinct than it had been before. About the same 

 time highly refractive granules and bodies resembling Bacteria appeared, and 

 the leucocytes present seemed also to contain granules. On the seventh day 

 it was observed that the circulation was growing feeble, and the tissues were 

 losing their transparency, a change in which the fixed corpuscles obviously 

 participated. On the morning of the eighth day it was found that circulation 

 had ceased. 



