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While among plants the cell wall is almost always well developed, it is very common for animal cells to be entirely lacking in this external covering -- as, for example, the white blood-cells.
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In all cases of constitutional disease, plasmogen is used to bring about a proper regeneration and preservation of the blood-cells.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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In all cases of acute, febrile diseases its purpose is to bring about a proper circulation and fluid condition of the blood-cells.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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The red blood-cells do not escape from the blood-vessels in any numbers unless the walls of the blood-vessels become injured or badly diseased.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Nearly all of these contain forms that are of more or less importance, but the ones that live in the blood-cells (_Hæmosporidiida_) are of the most interest to us because the parasites that cause the malarial fevers and various other diseases belong here.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Vinegar prevents coagulation of the blood-cells, and in consequence, stagnation and inflammation are avoided.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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They will undergo certain modifications, to become flesh-cells, blood-cells, brain-cells, and so on, adapting themselves to the different organs they are to build up; but they have as much their definite and appointed share in the formation of the body now as at any later stage of its existence.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Blood plasm contains eight different salts in different composition, and only when the actual physiological composition is employed can there be any guarantee against the decomposition of the blood-cells.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Inflammation terminates in resolution when the serum is reabsorbed by the blood-vessels and lymphatics, the living blood-cells find their way back into the circulation and the dead cells disintegrate and are taken up by the vessels.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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The broken-down scraps of the red blood-cells, together with the toxins of the parasite, are carried to the liver and spleen to be burned up or purified in such quantities that both become congested and diseased, causing the familiar "biliousness," so characteristic of malaria.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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