DR. MARTIN BARRY ON THE CORPUSCLES OF THE BLOOD. 
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52. Explanation of the Plates. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Fig. L Blood-corpuscles in fluid collected on the fimbriated portion of the Fallo- 
pian tube in a Rabbit killed eleven hours post coiturn. a. Usual state, or 
but little altered ; (3, incipient division into globules ; y. more advanced 
stage in this division (paragraphs 2. 3. 4.). 
Fig. 2. Blood-corpuscles in fluid collected on the ovary in a Rabbit killed seven hours 
post coitum. a. Usual state, or but little changed. The corpuscles in 
this figure which are not distinguished by a letter, present various stages 
in the division into globules, incipient in (3 of the preceding figure. 
Among the corpuscles are some in which the pellucid central portion is 
bounded by a dark line. Several are represented as viewed more or less 
laterally. In <$, the division has proceeded so far as to present the ap- 
pearance of distinct though still adherent globules (par. 2 to 5. 8.). 
s. Objects found with the foregoing (see par. 10.). 
Fig. 3. Blood-corpuscles in fluid collected on the fimbriated portion of the Fallopian 
tube in a Rabbit killed five hours post coitum. These corpuscles were in 
motion. Those at a resembled several in fig. 2. (3 Appeared to be ho- 
rizontally revolving on its axis. The corpuscles on the right side of (3 
seemed to consist of a central and a peripheral portion, more or less cor- 
responding in appearance to those at a ; but in most instances the peri- 
pheral portion was less distinctly separated into globules, and in all of 
them the form was undergoing rapid and incessant change, y. The 
central pellucid fluid had separated into three portions, and the motions 
of the entire object were such as to suggest the idea of its being about 
to undergo a like separation. The motions of these corpuscles were ob- 
served two hours and a half after death (par. 12 to 19.). 
Fig. 4. Blood-corpuscles in fluid collected on the fimbriated portion of the Fallopian 
tube in a Rabbit killed thirteen hours post coitum. These, when first ob- 
served, were rapidly and incessantly changing their form. When their 
motions ceased they retained the forms exhibited in the figure. Their 
pellucid centres were scarcely, if at all, seen while the motions continued. 
Sometimes they appeared almost to separate into two portions, and then 
recover their previous form. The motion ceased gradually, gentle un- 
dulations having been the last change observed (par. 12 to 19.). 
Fig 5. Several of the appearances presented by a blood-corpuscle observed changing 
its form as above described. The pellucid fluid, sometimes central (a), 
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