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![28 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF BLOOD. [Book r. must be remembered thnt iea™g the fibrinogen alone. Moreover it fibroplastic ?unctonoft^h^! °n P> 19' ^Mtf.view of the nd some authors*w£ile ££$2^$? T?w ^ all-ve8^tors; are the source of thl Vu t 8, , Schmidt t]tiat the white corpuscles believe t]athe fibrLo^7' ^ fr°m Wm ^ 80 far they bodies, pa^lo^3k To th? ^ fiWfe™-* a™ from these matter. ° accoidmg to them having nothing to do with the tion in which whifp ,nT™,0 i coagulation of muscle-plasma is a coagula- as we still seeTater o^C^CZ^of tte'tl ff M,V coagulation: and for thisill 1, u hlte corPuscle itself is a *e^»a?^£Z£m SUbSeqUent ^^-tion cannot be Sec. 2. The Chemical Composition of Bloou fromThMf t^Wf^l FaJ%1 of human blood is 1055, varying + * . Wlthm the llmits of health. ThTrlaction of b|od^s lt flows from the blood-vessels is found to b/ffifly *p ttrt& °f W«>d rapidly diminishes +w +1, • coagulatlon- Other observers have however ma in tain ad that the serum is more alkaline than the uncoagulated blold or weiSt00of from' *b f ^i?T*> he considered consisting by Trpuscles CrS F^?^ *° «>mewhat less than one-half of S the'amnn^ f T P ^ the corPuscles bei*g supposed to i exam tne amount of water proper to them. CorSX^B %fVGS' 3°° PartS °f the Ven0US bl00d of horse, the number of' I ^ 674 ' As wiH be see* * the succeeding sections s derX ' ot n 1 ?US! tS ^ a Specimen °f blood is fo^d to vary con- tt&ffi^as and in different M^ Lt - Conspicuous and striking as are the results of coagulation Th*™ A th\^tQr part of the clot consists of corpuscles The amount by weight of fibrin required to bind together a number iT^tl 1+nll°rdertofo™ ^en a large firm clot is exceeding wood is s,-d to La 9erage ZTHtJ by weight of fibriD in huma» from I o?vl the am0Unt which can b° obtained fiom a given quantity oT plasma varies extremely; the variation *• ^ but also to 1 FrCdericq L, Becherches sur la coagulation du Sang. BruxeUes, 1877. 2 Centralbt.f. vied. Wiss., 1867, p. 801. ' ^«a^ph3e27?riOUS meth°dS °f determiniltio11 seeHoppe-Seyler, Hdb. Physiol. Chan.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506917_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
