Histology of the Blood, Normal and Pathological

by Paul Ehrlich; Adolf Lazarus

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION [1]
Definition. Clinical methods of investigation of the blood [1]
The quantity of the blood [2]
Number of red corpuscles [4]
Size of red corpuscles [12]
Amount of hæmoglobin in the blood [13]
Specific gravity of the blood [17]
Hygrometry [21]
Total volume of the red corpuscles [21]
Alkalinity of the blood [23]
Coagulability of the blood [24]
Separation of the serum [24]
Resistance of the red corpuscles [25]
THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE BLOOD [27]
A. Methods of investigation [29]
α. Preparation of the dry specimen [32]
β. Fixation of the dry specimen [34]
γ. Staining of the dry specimen [36]
Theory of staining [37]
Combined staining [38]
Triacid fluid [40]
Other staining fluids [41]
Recognition of glycogen in the blood [45]
Microscopic determination of the distribution of the alkali of the blood [46]
B. Normal and pathological histology of the blood [48]
The red blood corpuscles [48]
Diminution of hæmoglobin equivalent [49]
Anæmic or polychromatophil degeneration [49]
Poikilocytosis [52]
Nucleated red blood corpuscles [54]
Normoblasts and megaloblasts [56]
The fate of the nuclei of the erythroblasts [57]
The clinical differences in the erythroblasts [61]
THE WHITE BLOOD CORPUSCLES [67]
I. Normal histology and classification of the white blood corpuscles [71]
The lymphocytes [71]
The large mononuclear leucocytes [73]
The transitional forms [74]
The polynuclear leucocytes [75]
The eosinophil cells [76]
The mast cells [76]
Pathological forms of white blood corpuscles [77]
The neutrophil myelocytes [77]
The eosinophil myelocytes [78]
The neutrophil pseudolymphocytes [78]
Stimulation forms [79]
II. On the places of origin of the white blood
corpuscles [81]
α. The spleen [84]
β. The lymphatic glands [100]
γ. The bone-marrow [105]
III. On the demonstration of the cell-granules,
and their significance [121]
History of the investigation of the granules [121]
Since Ehrlich. [123]
Methods of demonstration [124]
Vital staining of granules [124]
The Bioblast theory (Altmann) [128]
The granules as metabolic products of the cells (Ehrlich) [130]
Secretory processes in granulated cells [134]
IV. Leucocytosis [138]
Biological importance of leucocytosis [138]
Morphology of leucocytosis [142]
α. 1. Polynuclear neutrophil leucocytosis [143]
Definition [143]
Clinical occurrence [144]
Origin [144]
α. 2. Polynuclear eosinophil leucocytosis, including
the mast cells [148]
Definition [149]
Clinical occurrence [150]
Origin [154]
β. Leukæmia ("mixed leucocytosis") [167]
Lymphatic leukæmia [170]
Myelogenous leukæmia [171]
Morphological character [187]
Origin [187]
V. Leukopenia [188]
The blood platelets. The hæmoconiæ [190]
Index To Literature [195]
Index [209]
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