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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![10) chemically analysed, is found, according to Fourcroy,« to consist almost entirely of aqueous vapor, evidently holding in solution — aminute portion of animal matter, which imparts to it a pecu-. liar odour. BoudetS supposes this to be a volatile acid substance, analogous to the “ graisse phosphurée” of Chevreul and Denis. Plenk fancied that the halitus, or as he called it, gas animale sanguinis, produces important effects on the animal economy-y — Haller considers it identical with the matter of perspiration ;3 an idea remarkably coinciding with some recent medico-legal investigations, which will be further noticed in Chapter VIII. The halitus is of a more pungent and ranker odour in males than in females; it is less so in children than adults; and in eunuchs and old people it is said to be wanting.. Hence it is supposed to be connected with virility. ] The results of our experiments on healthy blood, so far as regards its three chief constituents, present the following average ; in 1000 parts :— Rs oh Bs sage BCT Lae ett See eat 796°55 H&MATOSINE AND ALBUMEN ... 200°1 HT BRU Rubens oc toe apt tthe te uokt cesithee 2°8 DRY CONTENTS OF SERUM (saline) 55 1000°00 The ultimate or simple elements of blood appear to be eleven or twelve in number, viz.: OXYGEN, HYDROGEN, AZOTE, CARBON, SULPHUR, PHOSPHURUS, CALCIUM, SODIUM, POTASSIUM, CHLORINE, IRON, and perhaps MAGNESIUM. From a review of the constituents of blood can we form a conjecture on their respective uses in the animal economy? Are they elaborated in the blood for their e System, by NIcHOLSON ix. 185. 6 Journal de Pharmacie, June, 1883. y Hydrologia, Vienna 1794, p. 42. 8 Elementa Physiol. III. 38. ¢ RuDoLpu’s Physiology. 134.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33094457_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
