---- ---- specific gravity of blood, 17 Shock, effect of, on specific gravity of blood, 18 Size of red corpuscles, 12 Skin diseases, eosinophilia in, 150 Small-celled infiltration, 105 Specific gravity of blood, 17 ---- ---- ---- ---- connection with haemoglobin, 18 ---- ---- ---- ---- in anaemias, 18 ---- ---- ---- ---- influences acting on, 18 ---- ---- ---- ---- of serum, 20 Spleen, 84 ---- as blood forming organ, 84, 99 ---- enlargement of, in fevers and phosphorus poisoning, 98 ---- excision of _see_ Splenectomy ---- functions of, 98 ---- in guinea-pig, 91, 93, 99 ---- tumours of, 97, 98 Splenectomy, effect of on blood in hedgehog, 107; in guinea-pig, 88; in man, 93, 95, 96, 113 Staining, theory of, 36 ---- vital, 124 Stimulation forms of leucocytes, 79 Stroma of corpuscles, influence on specific gravity of blood, 19 Suppuration in lymphatic leukaemia, 104; in myelogenic, 177; in pemphigus, 157 Survival staining, 125 Thyroid, changes after splenectomy, 84 Time of life, influence of, on corpuscles, 7 Toxic leucocytosis, 145 Transitional forms of leucocytes, 74, 112 Triacid stain, 42, 131 Trichinosis, eosinophilia in, 152 Tropics, influence of, on red corpuscles, 12 Tuberculin injections, eosinophilia from, 152 ---- ---- lymphocytosis in, 103 Tumours of bone-marrow, 115 Typhoid fever, leukopenia in, 146, 189 Urticaria, eosinophilia in, 150 Vital staining, 124 Volume of corpuscles, 21 White blood corpuscles _see_ Leucocytes Whooping cough, lymphocytosis in, 103 Worms _see_ Helminthiasis Wright's coagulometer, 24 CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.