A treatise on diphtheria : its nature, pathology and homoeopathic treatment / by Wm. Tod Helmuth.

  • William Tod Helmuth
Date:
1862
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Credit: A treatise on diphtheria : its nature, pathology and homoeopathic treatment / by Wm. Tod Helmuth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'so: in the blood corpuscles, however, it is of a bright red color : in chemical composition, it varies extremely, heing usually an albuminous compound — in part at least; p. 117,^ The membranous wall of the nuclei is an albuminous com])Ound certainly^ and probably but little, if at all, diiferent from the younger cell membrane. And further, on p. 157, he writes, they [the cells] are probably never developed from fibrin, but from albumen rather, fibrine never rising to a higher organization than mere simple fibre. And still, on the same subject, he writes, in speaking of false membrane, It must therefore be something else that is converted into cells and tissues, and we can assign no other element than albumen. In respect, therefore, to the tissues, albumen^ and not fibrin, is the 'plastic element of the blood |)lasma. I may mention here one other experiment to prove that the membrane found within the right heart was not fibrinous. Fibrine from the veins is rather difi^erent in formation from the same sub- stance taken from arterial blood ; and according to Draper, * the former may be dissolved in a warm solution of nitrate of potash, while the latter can- not. A portion of the cardiac exudation was sub- jected to this test, without the slightest eifect being produced, while caustic ammonia immediately dis- solved it. * Medical Chemistry, p. 390.