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They are obviously always excessively thin: and appearances indicate 
that larger forms may wholly occupy the corpuscle, from the contours of 
which their own edges are then practically indistinguishable. 
The corpuscle may contain one or several of the bodies, clearly 
distinguishable from each other. Occasionally several lie close together, 
some perhaps bent, and then present the appeai’ance of a bundle of short 
lines (like a bunch of twigs) some of which seem to be branched 
(PI. XIX, figs. 67, 68). 
(Examples of nearly all these variations are given in the plates.) 
At first sight therefore the body seems to be pleomorphic, but 
observation will show that the limits of variation of form are not very 
extended, and that between the many figures shown, there is no essential 
difference of structure. The type is that of a slender body, at first 
almost linear, which may increase in length or in breadth, but always 
seems to be entirely in one plane. Certain specimens give the impression 
of a thicker primitive chord or axis, from which the rest of the body 
grows out as a thin flexible membrane or fringe. 
The protrusion of the bodies from the corpuscle may be complete, 
and (generally at a later stage of observation) many elongated and 
quite filamentous, or broader linear-lanceolate shapes may be seen, just 
attached by one end to the corpuscle, or floating free in the plasma 
(PI. XIX, figs. 22-24, 72-77). Certain of the corpuscles—especially when 
the blood has been taken near the crisis, in acute infections—show no such 
forms as the foregoing, but instead, a very minute speckling or stippling 
of the whole corpuscle with blue, the impression given being that of 
a mass of granules just on the limits of resolvability, and suggesting 
the formation of spores or infective granules. More rarely the corpuscles 
exhibit numbers of larger, deeply staining granules: or yet again similar 
granules from which may extend comma-like traces (suggesting com¬ 
mencing gi’owth), or small extremely thin and short curved forms 
(PI. XIX, figs. 52, 53, 54). 
(6) The foregoing account is concerned with the appeai’ance of the 
bodies in stained preparations. But in some specimens—dependent 
upon conditions the writer has not yet been able to determine—before 
the presence of the endoglobular bodies has been made manifest by 
colour, it is indicated in other ways: 
(I) “Squared corpuscles.” The corpuscles undergo a singular—and 
to my mind a pathognomonic-—^alteration of outline. A portion of the 
contour becomes straight while the rest of it remains smooth and round. 
The disc then appears as if a part of its circumference had been simply 
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