ON CERTAIN BODIES FOUND IN SYPHILITIC LESIONS DEMONSTRATED BY THE JELLY METHOD
Moolgavkar · BMJ · 1912
Tlr. TT l 655 the corpuscles.The free granules, which are frequently to ba met with in pairs, each individual being apparently connected to its fellow by an invisible thread, are muich more highly refractile,vandoappear to exlhibit more umarked Browniaf movemient than do the fiee leucocyte granules and the, oher gianules.tobe fouiid in fre §h blood prepara- tions.-4inone -occasiorranpir of granules ihich were seen to escape from a free haimogregarine were found overnight to have taken up a position actually inside a neighlouring red blood corpuscle.Moreover, these two intracorpuscular granules were found to have divided into four between 10.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. of.the same day.*Theektrusion of these granules from the nucleuLs of the parasite, their.passage to -the postei5or extremity, and their liberation into the surrounding blood Dlasma, may be readily observed in films of fresh blood kept between slide and cover-slip, or in films made from blood lkept in tubes of Nicollos blood-agar medium: In the case of soles examined during May, 1911, granule formation occurred, as a rule, after the individual parasites 'had escaped from-the host cell, whereas witlh soles examined in September, 1912, granule formation was in most cases marked while the parasites were still intracorpusculr.In living blood the granules readily take on a red stain- ing with polychrome methylene blue, and the&y also take