Clinical observations on the blood of the insane / by S. Rutherford MacPhail.

  • MacPhail, Samuel Rutherford.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Clinical observations on the blood of the insane / by S. Rutherford MacPhail. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    The special points in this table are : An average period of residence of 14^ years; an average loss of weight of 2*3 lbs. in 29 months; an average percentage of haemoglobin similar in amount to that in Table I., but less than in Table II.; a lower percentage of red corpuscles than in either of the previous groups. Table IV.—Ten Dements Between 50 and 60 Yeaks. Period Weights in lbs. at four different periods. Percentage of Haemoglo- bin. Percentage of Hsema- cytes. of Resi- dence. Jan, '83. Deo, '83. Mar, '84. May, '84. Dec. Mar, May. Aver- age, Dec. Mar, May, Aver- age. r 14 yrs. 172 176 174 175 65 68 68 67 87 86-9 87-8 87-2 2 22 yrs. 118 108 108 110 74 68 70 70-6 87-4 87 88-9 87-7 3 12 yrs. 156 155 » 66 66 87-7 87-7 4 22 yrs. 158 154 148 152 68 70 65 67*6 87-8 87-1 86-6 87*1 6 13 yrs. 172 168 172 173 55 60 60 58-3 88-4 87-3 87-8 87-8 6 7 yrs. 163 158 156 158 68 70 70 69-3 87-7 86-9 86-5 87 7 15 yra. 174 176 172 172 70 70 70 70 86-3 85-9 86-7 86-3 8 22 yrs. 148 148 J 54 149 70 72 70 70-6 86-7 87-2 87-2 87 9 22 yrs. 175 171 170 166 60 58 60 59-3 87-4 86-9 85-4 86-5 10 22 yrs. 138 143 145 147 58 60 58 58-6 87-8 89-2 88-6 88-5 Avgs. 17-1 157-4 155-7 155-4t 155-7t 65-4 66-2t 65-6t 65-73 87-42 87-15t 87'27t 87-28 * Died of Pneumonia, March, 1884. t Average of Nine Observations. This table is incomplete, inasmuch as one of the patients died of an intercurrent attack of pneumonia, and his blood was examined only on one occasion. The table, however, brings out more forcibly the diminution in the average per- centage of red corpuscles noted in the third group. The proportion of white to red corpuscles was also ascer- tained, but as they showed so little variation from the normal standard, I have not given the results in the tables. The relative size of the corpuscles was fairly uniform.
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