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Heads of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine
Heads of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine Author:Andrew Duncan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. Concerning the Nature and Properties of the different Parts of 'which the Human Body is comptfed. A. Of the Fluids. 1. Of the Chyle. on the nature of... more » the chyle — Account of the matters from which It is formed— Obvious appearance — Refemblance to milk in the mammalia— Colour in birds — Tafte — Specific gravity — Spontaneous feparation— Coagulation — Acefcent tendency-— Natural con tents tents—Different opinions refpecting thefe—Evidence of its containing fu- gar—Changes of ks appearance in the lacteals, from mixture with extraneous fubftances—blue—yellow— red—Different qualities without any change of colour — Evidence that every fubftance foluble in water may be taken up by the lacteals— Proof adduced for denying this in the cafe of iron, even in a faline ft ate —Objections to that proof—Inquiry refpecting the time when the chyle is moft abundant in the lacteals— The changes which it undergoes in the thoracic duet—The changes to which it is fubjected in the blood- Teffels—Time at which it difappears 2. Of the Blood. /observations on the different conftituent parts of the blood — Examination of the conftituent parts from fpontaneous feparation — a. Halitus — b. CrafTamentum— -c. Serum. Senfible qualities of the halitus— Difference in diflerent animals — The changes it undergoes in difeafe — Its noxious power in fbme inftances— Qualities on condenfation — Eflec'ls of chemical trials — Change on the fpe- cific gravity of the blood from, its efcape— Obfervations on the fuppofi- tion that its activity depends on phlo- gifton. Parts Parts entering the compofition of the crafTamentum— Red particles — Coagulable lymph or gluten—Parts entering the compofition of the fe— rum—gluten—ferofity— Constituent parts of the general mafs of blood. Red Particles....« less