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In the females from 853-135 to 790-394 : 

 Mean of the 10 cases 804-371. 



In the males from 805-263 to 778-625 : 

 Mean of the 10 cases 789-320. 



In diffei-ent temperaments : 



Females, lymphatic, mean of 5 cases 803-710. 

 , sanguineous, 4 792-984. 



Males, lymphatic, 2 800-566. 



, sanguineous, 5 786-583. 



Female, mean quantity of clot from 10 cases 115-963. 

 Male, 132-490. 



Hence there is more water in the blood of females than of males. 

 The proportion of water was not found to depend upon age, at least 

 between the limits of twenty and sixty years. In individuals of 

 the same age, it is less in the sanguineous than in the lymphatic. 

 The proportion of albumen is found to be sensibly the same 

 in the male and female, and not to be proportional to the age 

 between the same limits ; and nearly the same in quantity in 

 sanguineous and lymphatic individuals of different sexes. The 

 proportion of colouring matter is found to vary in the blood of 

 individuals of diiferent sex and age, in individuals of same sex and 

 different age : and to be greater in the male than in the female; and 

 greater in sanguineous than in lymphatic persons of same sex. 



Denis found from comparison of his analyses, that in the blood 

 of individuals ill nourished and accustomed to stimulant drinks, 

 the proportion of colouring matter increases, and is even more 

 abundant than in the blood of sanguineous subjects ; but that the 

 albumen, on the contrary, is in very small quantity*. 



The principal change which J. Miiller foimd in the blood of 

 cholera patients, he states to be its propensity to coagulate even 

 during life. He therefore recommends the use of the subcar- 

 bonates of soda and potass, particidarly the last, in large doses, 

 on the immediate accession of the disorder. Dr. O'Shaugh- 

 nessy. Dr. Clanny, and Mr. Bell found the salts and serum also 

 greatly defective in quantity in this disease. 



There is no longer any question amongst physiologists as to 

 the life of the blood. That which enters into the composition 

 of all parts of the living body, from which they are produced, 

 and sustained, and restored, and upon which the body itself re- 

 acts, must possess life. Many have even supposed that its red 

 particles possess spontaneity of motion, as in the instances 

 quoted by Professor Alison ui the Appendix to his Physiology ; 

 but the pheenomena alluded to appear to be explicable partly from 

 acknowledged actions of the neighbouring living solids ', and 

 • Majendie's Journal, ix. 221. 



