The actual process of nutrition in the living structure demonstrated by the microscope; and the renewal of the tissues and secretions, with the phenomena and products of inflammation, illustrated and established / [William Addison].

  • Addison, William, 1802-1881
Date:
1843-1845
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Credit: The actual process of nutrition in the living structure demonstrated by the microscope; and the renewal of the tissues and secretions, with the phenomena and products of inflammation, illustrated and established / [William Addison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    scription of a fact mentioned by me, p. 29, in the following' chapter on nutrition ; and 1 feel much gratified by having the learned professor’s authority for an essential feature of my observation. At the end of this volume I have placed, in a series of additional notes, several remarks and some new observations having relation to the matter con- tained in it. Great Malvern, December 2nd, 1843. A few months ago Messrs. Powell and Lealand fitted one of their very best one-eighth-object glasses to my microscope, and I have latterly frequently employed it in verifying my former observations and in extending my researches. Before finally passing this preface through the press I wish to relate an important observation made with this object-glass, in combination with one of my own original eye-pieces, giving a magnifying power of 700 diameters linear. With this com- bination I can see in the interior of several of the mucous globules found in a clear transparent drop of saliva, myriads of molecules in the most active state of motion, almost reminding one of the busy scene of an ant-hill. The globules in which this