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LECTURE I.
the small cells belong, according to the prevailing terminology, to the category of pus-corpuscles; the larger ones, which we may designate mucus-corpuscles or catarrhal cells, are partly filled with fat or greyish-black pigment, in the form of granules.
These structures, however small their size, possess all the typical peculiarities of the large ones; all the characters of a cell displayed by the large ones again present themselves in them. But this is, in my opinion, the most essential point—that, whether we compare large or small, pathological or physiological, cells, we always find this correspondence between them
