A Lecture on the True Nature and Origin of the Salivary Globules, and Their Identity with the White Corpuscles of the Blood (Classic Reprint), Richardson Joseph Gibbons

This desire for investigating the secrets of creation, like certain other less satisfying passions, grows with what it feeds upon, and I therefore confidently hope that your attachment to the school of seekers after truth in nature, will lead you to feel an interest this evening in my remarks upon the true structure and origin of the salivary globules, and their identity with the white corpuscles of the blood; particularly as these researches have a direct bearing upon some of the knotty problems in your own specialty of medicine.

The nature of the nucleated corpuscles so abundant in the saliva has long been a subject of some uncertainty; and although they have, no doubt, as favorite test-objects for the higher powers of the micro scope, been more frequently examined by microscopists than almost any other constituent of the glandular secretions, observers seem to have been generally contented to accept them simply as useful meas-t ures for the capacity of the higher objectives, and passed on without attempts to solve the enigma of their origin.

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