. A system of medicine, by many writers; . Fig. 2. —Two giant-cells, seen under high magnification (x 1515 diam.) from a rodent, the spermophile,inoculated with tuberculosis, to show stages in the destruction of the bacilli. «, unalteredbacillus; 6, bacillus staining badly, and with greatly thickened capsule ; e, bacillus granular andbreaking up ; c^e, shadows. — [Metschnikoff (51).] In these cases it would seem as though the toxic properties of themicrobes and the antagonising powers of the cells were nearly tuberculosis, for instance, it is not unusual to find in the giant-cellss
. A system of medicine, by many writers; . Fig. 2. —Two giant-cells, seen under high magnification (x 1515 diam.) from a rodent, the spermophile,inoculated with tuberculosis, to show stages in the destruction of the bacilli. «, unalteredbacillus; 6, bacillus staining badly, and with greatly thickened capsule ; e, bacillus granular andbreaking up ; c^e, shadows. — [Metschnikoff (51).] In these cases it would seem as though the toxic properties of themicrobes and the antagonising powers of the cells were nearly tuberculosis, for instance, it is not unusual to find in the giant-cellssome bacilli which evidently are undergoing degenerative changes, stain-ing poorly and irregularly, or but faintly traceable as unstained, translu-cent shadows, while elsewhere they are apparently proliferating despitetheir intracellular position.^ 1 It is, however, to declare in all cases that because a micro-organism con-tinues to stain well therefore it was living at the moment the preparation was taken and 54 SYSTEM OF MED
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