Changes of the blood in disease / translated from the French of M. Gibert by John H. Dix.

  • Camille-Melchior Gibert
Date:
1841
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    CHANGES OF THE BLOOD IN DISEASE. [The following Monograph was offered at the Concours for the chair of Pathologie Interne, at the Faculty of Paris, at the time when M. Piorry was elected. The candidates were M. Piorry, M. C. Broussais, M. Dubois (d'Amiens) and M. Gibert.—Ed. Lib.] The blood, this soul of the flesh, (Moses), this treasure of life (Ambroise Pare), this liquid flesh (Bordeu), this fluid, the source of all other fluids in the body, unceasingly moving in the process of circulation, unceasingly reanimated by the act of respiration, unceasingly changing, and unceasingly renewed by the act of nutrition, has always attracted the attention of observers, and most medical writers of different ages have assigned to if an important place in pathology. In our days, when exactness of methods derived from mechanics and chemistry enables us to study with minuteness the chief alterations in the blood, we find numerous investigations with regard to this fluid, both in its healthy and morbid conditions. A summary of these investigations, as concise and thorough as possible, will form the basis of this dissertation. Passing over as very imperfect the chemical essays and micro- scopical observations of the savans of the seventeenth, and the early part of the eighteenth century, mentioned by Lecanu in his excellent memoir upon the blood, published in 1830, we would determine the constitution of the blood as it has been ascertained by the researches, experiments, and successive discoveries of Rouelle, Berzelius, Brande, Deyeux, (1804), Vauquelin, Chevreul, Prevost and Dumas. Lassaigne (1825), Raspail (1829), Lecanu (1830), Denis (1831), Muller (1832), and other physicians and chemists cotemporary with us.