Excerpt from Vital Staining of Human Blood With Special Reference to the Separation of the Monocytes Ferrata placed his confidence in the existence ofbut one type Of mononuclear cell in the blood on the fact that all intermediate forms would be seen. Among the. Living, supra-vitally stained cells. It was therefore of the greatest interest to discover that the supra-vital method furnishes one of the imost valuable methods of distinguishing two groups of mononuclear cells in the blood. The method has not only been shown to be a satisfactory one for the study of human blood but has been applied to other mammals, e.g., rabbits, and has been found of far greater value for the identification of transitionals in experi mental blood studies in that animal than either Giemsa or oxydase stains. 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.