Excerpt from The Microscopic Miscellany: Being Selections From the Microscopic Journal, Containing the Most Recent Facts, and Important Discoveries in Human and Comparative Anatomy, Zoology, Botany, Geology, Pathology, Medicine, Etc;, Developed by British and Foreign Microscopical Observers Having proceeded thus far in his observations on the blood diluted with salt and water, his next endeavour was to prove whether these changes in any way depended upon the saline solution, and whether the same phenomena would occur in blood fresh drawn from the body, having no other fluid for the red discs to float in than its own liquor sanguim's accordingly, some blood was taken from a small incision in his arm, and placed on a glass, and covered lightly with a thin piece of mica. At first no trace of spinous discs was to be observed; but after a few minutes they sprang Up in all parts of the field of View, but their surfaces were not so much corrugated as when the saline solution was used, neither did the change from the ordinary disc to the spinous one go on so rapidly but all the other phenomena were precisely simi lar to those which took place in the blood treated with salt and water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.