Leishman's chrome-cells

(lesh'man) [Sir Willii B. Leishman, British Army surgeon, *l8l5 Basophile granular leucocytes found in blai water fever. L.'s gran'ules, coccoid bod found in ticks infected with spirochetosis. I meth'od, a method of obtaining the phagocj index; a suspension of the pathogenic mic organisms is added to a leucocytic cream tained from the patient's blood, the mixtun then incubated for a time, and the number