white corpuscle

On April 3, 1934, in an article about a dying 4-year-old girl, a reporter described the disease as “an overabundance of white corpuscles in the blood,” adding that “its cure is infrequent.”

The white corpuscles stagnate, stick to the wall for a longer or shorter time, and often change their place, while the red corpuscles are in constant and progressive motion.

At other times it is not sufficient, particularly if the disease has advanced and the number of bacteria is too great for the enfeebled white corpuscles to deal with.

On the method of counting red and white corpuscles with Thoma's Apparatus.

Besides these, and floating along in the same plasma, are the white corpuscles.