The blood, anatomically, physiologically, & pathologically considered, with a view to exemplify or set forth, by instance or example, the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, as revealed and declared in holy writ / by Charles Edward Joseph.

  • Joseph Charles Edward.
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[1846]
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    by a wall composed of the original cell-membrane, the primitive muscular fasciculus is composed. This spiral formation would appear to have an influence on muscular contraction, but we find it also in other tissues. The blood-corpuscles, before pass- ing into cells for the formation of muscular fibre, are observed to be darker in colour, appearing to have an increase in colour- ing matter. The capillary tissue he supposes to be formed from the corpuscles, as its elements have the appearance of blood- particles in a state of change. He believes them to unite, form- ing a necklace of elliptical bodies, coalescing and becoming paler, the membranous partitions of each disappearing to form a vessel, the sides being imperfect at certain points for union with branches. He has observed also many other tissues are originally formed from cells, so like to the changed blood-corpus- cles, that it is unreasonable to suppose them formed from any other source, and believes that when necessary new cells are developed from the corpuscle in the same manner by which cells are formed in the germinal vesicle, by the formation of a cavity containing pellucid fluid in the centre of the nucleus. The most remarkable of the tissues he has examined are cellular, vascular, and nervous, muscular fibre, cartilage, the coats of blood-ves- sels, epithelium, the biliary processes, the pigmentum nigrum, and the crystalline lens. The elements of the spermatozoon and ovum he also found developed in a manner analogous to the changed blood-corpuscles. Thus it appears from his experi- ments that all the important structures of the body are formed from the red corpuscles. This causes a great change in the con- sideration of the uses of the other components of the blood. The albumen existing in the serum can be no longer supposed to form cellular tissue, so universally disposed. Fibrine, before said to compose the greatest part in the frame in the muscles, can no longer be considered to serve this important end. We shall see in the next chapter that this last component forms a convenient and necessary vehicle for the action of the red cor- puscles, in certain abnormal states of parts, and it may be that