Observations on the growth and reproduction of the red corpuscles of the blood / by Robert H. Bakewell.

  • Bakewell, Robert Hall.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Observations on the growth and reproduction of the red corpuscles of the blood / by Robert H. Bakewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    from 12 to 16 hours. But as long as these vital changes are taking place putrefaction does not occur. There are many interesting pathological questions which may probably be elucidated by this new method of investiga- tion; for it seems to have occurred to none of the eminent men who have employed themselves in researches on the physiology and pathology of the blood, to keep it at or near the temperature of the human body in health and disease. Very high tempera- ture, such as 110-15 has been employed, but never so far as the writer can discover, a continuous heat of 98.6. The most convenient method of experimenting is to get some of the small bottles used by homoeopathic chemists for their globules, and fill them with the mixture of blood and serum or albumen. By filling them quite full and then cork- ing very slowly and carefully all air may be excluded. They should then be stitched into a long piece of calieo, and tied round the body, under all the clothes. The larger vaccine tubes have also been employed. They can be kept in a case, and one taken out at intervals for examination. There need be no hurry to use the blood immediately after the oird is killed, as the blood retains all its vital porperties for twelve hours, in a temperature under 70 E. Dunedin, New Zealand, January 20th, 1874. Mills, Dick & Co., Printers, Stafford Street, Dunedin.
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