Fibrin, its origin and sources of development in the animal organism : veritable fibrin being proved to be derived from albuminous substances by the agency of water / by John Goodman.

Goodman, John

Date:: 1871

Credit: Fibrin, its origin and sources of development in the animal organism : veritable fibrin being proved to be derived from albuminous substances by the agency of water / by John Goodman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$According to Gubler and Quevenne, quoted by Dr Carpea (page 178) we have in ]000 parts :— Water. Albumen, Lymph, - - 939.87, ... 42.75. Chyle, 904.8, ... 70.80. Blood, - - 796.93, ... 58.82. Thus presenting nearly twenty-two parts of \vater to one albumen in lymph—to thirteen and a-half water to one albumen in the blood. In the chyle we have a higher amo of albumen in man, though not in animals, so it is stated, to existing amount of water. But it must be remembered t this fluid had not as yet joined the lymph, being drawn examination before it reached the receptaculum chyli, in win the lymph unites with the chyle. Nor had it either been s jected to the action of the imbibed fluids from the gastric ve: to which it is at least for a short time exposed after its entra into the sanguineous circulation. If water, therefore, is capable of producing with such faci the change in question; if this change is, as we have se incapable of being effected without the presence of water; an this fluid is also discovered to be present in the lymphatics a absorbent glands, where Fibrin is first and chiefly discovered receive its origin, and that in an amoujit ample and sufficien meet every requirement of the organism;—unless some m probable cause can be discovered, we shall, of course, be un the necessity of admitting water to be the producing cause this phenomenon. We have in possession several specimens of this prod preserved in spirit, which could not be distinguished from Bl< Fibrin—others, the result of exposure to oxygen—to the volil current—and also of precipitation, which present incontrovertij evidence of the facts herein adduced. I$