On the chemical composition of the nuclei of blood corpuscles / by T. Lauder Brunton.

  • Lauder Brunton
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[1869]
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    ON THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THK NUCLEI OF BLOOD CORPUSCLES. By T. LAUDER BRUNTON, B.Sc, M.D., LATE SENIOR PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. ^Reprinted from The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology for November, 1869.] During the course of last summer Professor Ktihne discovered that the chief constituent of the Nuclei of Blood Corpuscles agreed in its reactions with mucin rather than fibrin or albumen. It had previously been found by Hoppe Seyler,* associated in the nuclei with a small amount of paraglobulin, and previous to Professor Kiihne's discovery, had been supposed to be an albu- minous substance, resembling fibrin. I was informed by Pro- fessor Klihne, while working in his laboratory in Amsterdam, of the observations he had already made, and having repeated them, I publish the result with his permission. The observa- tions are not complete, but I give them now, as I am unable to prosecute them further at present. The nuclei of the blood corpuscles of eels and frogs yield a substance similar to that obtained from the blood of fowls; but as the latter could be much more readily obtained in con- siderable quantity, it alone was used in studying the reactions in detail. To obtain the nuclei, the defibrinated blood, mixed with ten * Kiihne, Lehrbuch der Physiologischen Chemie.