An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood, in health and disease ... / [C. Turner Thackrah].
- Charles Thackrah
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood, in health and disease ... / [C. Turner Thackrah]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dh [ The following experiments are selected from Mr. Thackrah’s note-book, and though not quoted-in the preceding work, appear to the Editor too valuable to remain unpublished. ] lie To ascertain the quantity of fluid in an animal, a living dog was weighed, and then bled to death. It was afterward skinned, and the carcase chopped into small pieces and washed till every appearance of blood was removed. All the fragments and the skin were next dried carefully on a sand-bath, and when the moisture had entirely evaporated, the following proportions were ascertained. 378-4 Solid. 621-6 Fluid. 1000-0 2p. Blood was received as it flowed (principally in drops) from the neck of a fowl, and after it had stood sixty hours the serum was poured off from the crassamentum, which was then broken up and allowed to remain at rest for twenty-four hours more, when the serum which had exuded was again poured off. On evaporating these two specimens of serum in a sand-bath, their solid and fluid contents were found to be First exudation. Second. Solid...... hI Ae aia cee 155-5 Water G07 Ot steresn tte rce st 844-5 Serum...1000-0 esceeseesess 1000-0 The serum in both instances was nearly pure. « Referred to at page 30. B See page 41.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33094457_0242.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
