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Hypcrinosis is excess of fibrine, and therefore characteristic of 

 inflammation. Hypinosis defect of fibrine, as in ataxic fevers, pas- 

 sive hemorrhages, and cachectic conditions. Spanazmia when the 

 blood is poor in solid parts, particularly fibrine and corpuscles. This 

 condition of the blood is found, according to Simon, in two kinds of 

 diseases — where the chylopoietic viscera are deranged, as from bad 

 food, imperfect chylification, protracted action of noxious atmo- 

 spheric or other agents, (as poisonous metals,) and inordinate using 

 up of the circulating fluids: the other, from a peculiar state of the 

 atmosphere, the first impress of which is made either directly upon 

 the blood, or indirectly through the medium of the nervous system — 

 as adynamic fevers, scurvy, purpura, &c. Heterochymeusis where 

 there is a heterogeneous substance in the blood — as in diabetes, 

 Bright's disease, purulent diathesis, &c. 



25. MM. Bequerel and Rodier published their researches on the 

 blood in the Cfazette Medicate and Ency olographic des Sciences Me- 

 dicates, 1845, establishing the following general deductions from the 

 analysis of the blood of patients labouring under most of the more 

 common diseases. 1st. The simple fact of the development of mor- 

 bid action of any kind changes the composition. 2d. Bleeding 

 changes the composition of the blood, in proportion to the repetitions, 

 diminishing the blood-globules and albumen, but not the fibrine — 

 agreeing in these observations with Andral, Prevost, and Dumas. 

 3d. Plethora is an increase of the mass of the blood, and not of cer- 

 tain of its ingredients only. Differing from Lecanu, Andral, and 

 Gavarret. 4th. Diminution of the blood corpuscles (ansemia), fre- 

 quently occurs in diseases, either as an essential character, a com- 

 plication, or a sequence. 5th. Inflammation modifies the blood 

 chiefly by increasing the fibrine. Corresponding with Simon, as just 

 quoted, and others. 6th. Fibrine may be diminished, and perhaps 

 altered, from insufficient food, and other unwholesome agents. 7th. 

 If a secretion is suspended or diminished, its chemical constituents 

 remain in the blood. 8th. The albumen is diminished in the follow- 

 ing diseases: — 1st, Bright's disease; 2d, affections of the heart, with 

 dropsy; 3d, puerperal fevers. They think they are the first who 

 have established the effect of disease in diminishing the proportion 

 of globules ; the diminution of the albumen in all diseases, especially 

 the phlegmasia, where it is in inverse ratio to the increase of fibrine ; 

 the excess of fibrine in many cases of chlorosis ; and the diminution 



