Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Water Albumen, coag-ulated 121 Colouring' matter 59 Free carbon 32 Fibrin pressed and dried 18 Muriates of soda and potassa, carbonate of soda, and animal extractive J 1000 The above analysis, however, differs materially from that which is given by the same author in a former work; but particularly in the addition of free carbon, which is prol)ably an error. The following is the most recent and, perhaps, the most correct analysis of the blood that has been made on the continent:— STANDARD ANALYSIS OF THE BLOOD. By Mr. L. R. LECANU. [Jouru. de Pharniacie, No. IX. September 1831, p. 502.] Water 780.145 Fibrin 2.100 Albumen 65.090 Fatty matter: S crystalline 2.439 C b, oily 1.310 Colouring matter 133.000 Extractive soluble in alcohol water, .. . 1.790 Albuminate of soda 1.265 Muriate of soda Muriate of potassa. . . . Carbonate 1 8.370 Phosphate>Alkaline.. . Sulphate J Carbonate of lime Carbonate of mag'nesia Phosphate of lime .... 2.100 Phosphate of man^nesia Phosphate of iron. .,« . 2.400 Total 1000.000