Clinical lectures on pulmonary consumption / by the late Theophilus Thompson ; with additional lectures by his son E. Symes Thompson.
- Theophilus Thompson
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Clinical lectures on pulmonary consumption / by the late Theophilus Thompson ; with additional lectures by his son E. Symes Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![weight in three months, and had essentially improved under the cod oil treatment. Dr. Snow did me the favour to make the analysis. I place by its side, for comparison, the analysis of the blood of a healthy male, as given by Becquerel and Eodier. Ditto of a phthisical man Analysis of the blood of a healthy male. ^^^^ ^^^^^ months' treatment with cod oil. 770-6 143-5 Water .... 779-0 Blood-globules . . . 14]-i Albumen . 69-4 ■) Extractive and salts 6-8} ^^^ ' ^^'^ Fibrine . . _ g.g Fatty matters . . . i-g 4-0 0-4 The interest of these analyses is increased by their har- mony with the observations of Simon, who has recorded an increase of blood-corpuscles, and a diminution of fibiine under the use of cod oU ; and their unportance becomes more obvious when they are viewed in reference to the facts stated by Andral and Gavarret; who, having analysed the blood in twenty-one cases of phthisis, found their maximum amount of fibrine, 5-9, their minimum 2-1, and that the amount of corpuscles approximated to the normal standard in only two instances, in which it was represented by 122-1 and 120'4. Frequently in- deed the amount was below 100 ; and the decrease of corpuscles was almost always accompanied with a cor- responding increase of fibrine.^- You see that, in the patient just referred to, the pro- portion of blood-corpuscles pretty closely corresponds with that characteristic of health ; and Mr. Rodgers re- Simons Animal Chcmist.y, Sydenham Soc. Edit., vol. i.p.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20399868_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
