3. The cells of the bone-marrow, on the contrary, and the polynuclear
pseudoeosinophil cells do not show the least variation in the course of
the first year. Bearing in mind that under normal conditions these cells
are met with exclusively in the bone-marrow, and that inflammation in
animals after removal of the spleen is accompanied by an acute
pseudoeosinophil leucocytosis, exactly as in normal animals, one must
admit that the production and function of this kind of cell are quite
independent of the spleen. Hence there can be no doubt about their
myelogenic nature.
4. It is especially important that the mononuclear and the leucocytes
associated with them, undergo no increase. As these cells under normal
circumstances occur both in the spleen and in the bone-marrow, we must
assume that normally also the bone-marrow is responsible for the
majority of this kind in the blood, and that the deficiency in the
splenic contribution can be easily covered by a slightly raised activity
of the bone-marrow. Were the share of the spleen important, from
general biological considerations, an over-production of the kind of
cell in question must occur in the vicarious organs.
5. The increase of the eosinophil cells, which constantly makes its
appearance in the second year after the operation, is highly
interesting, and leads to a really enormous rise in their absolute and
relative numbers. Their percentage number once rose to 34.6%, and their
absolute quantity amounted at the end of the second year on the average
to 30-50-fold their original number (see table).
=Hence it follows from Kurloff's researches that the spleen of the
guinea-pig plays quite an unimportant part in the formation of the white
blood corpuscles, and that after splenectomy in the first year
compensation occurs only in the lymph-glands, followed in the second
year by a great increase of the eosinophil cells. It is to be
particularly insisted once again that the spleen has nothing at all to
do with the formation of the pseudoeosinophil polynuclear cells, which
are the analogues of the polynuclear neutrophils of man.=
* * * * *
How do observations on man stand in the light of Kurloff's observations,
which might be regarded as depending on peculiarities of the particular
kind of animal?
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