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Researches on Phagocytosis

Nature volume 96, pages 19–23 (1915)Cite this article

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I.—Introduction. ALTHOUGH the number of the white blood corpuscles, compared with that of the red, is small (1 leucocyte to ±350 red blood-corpuscles), the absolute number of them is rather considerable; for in the five litres of blood, which is the usual quantity for a man of normal size, there are 80,000,000,000 leucocytes.

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HAMBURGER, H. Researches on Phagocytosis . Nature 96, 19–23 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096019a0

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