From the chart and table, the number on the surface of
comparison of the white blood corpuscles is seen to have more
than doubled itself in the first seven months, and that this
increase was solely dependent on the flooding of the blood by
lymphocytes. The nucleated or bone-marrow elements and the
large mononuclear cells remained continuously at the same level
during the whole period. The changes in the percentage
proportions ran somewhat differently. The percentages rose from
35 to 66% for the lymphocytes only, whilst for the other forms
they distinctly fell: for the nucleated from 44% to 22% and for
the large mononuclear from 18% to 9%. It was only in the course
of the second year that a very considerable relative and
absolute increase of the eosinophil cells appeared: the values
rose gradually from about 1.0% to 28.9% or from 0.5 to 13.9 on
each comparison area. The last examination of the blood in this
animal was made on April 30, 1890, that is, two years after the
removal of the spleen. The animal was quite healthy, bore four
healthy young guinea-pigs by a father whose spleen had been
removed. The young have a completely normal spleen, and their
blood likewise shows no abnormalities.
[Illustration: CHART TO EXPT. No. I. (cp. Table, page 89. The figures in
the chart refer to comparative surfaces.)
Thick line--total number of leucocytes
Broken line--lymphocytes
Thin line--number of nucleated, pseudo-eosinophil cells
Double line--large mononuclear cells
Dotted line--eosinophil cells]
TABLE I.
Key to columns:
A - Leucocytes
B - Pseudo-eosinophil cells
C - Lymphocytes
D - Large mononuclear cells
E - Eosinophil cells
F - Nigrosinopil cells
G - On comparative surfaces
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