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like tar. These cases are the most rapidly fatal. The quantity of the 

 saline matters is also much diminished, particul.irly the carbonate of 

 soda, which usually disappears altogether, and hence the serum is 

 much less alkaline in its reaction than in the natural condition. 



We subjoin a table, showing- the relative composition of three spe- 

 cimens of blood: one in health, the second in cholera, and the third 

 in bilious diarrhcea. It is remarkable, the totally opposite change 

 which takes place from the normal standard in the two last-named 

 diseases, and as Dr. O'S. remarks, it may form a mode of distinguish- 

 ing between them in case the cholera should domesticate itself in this 

 country. 



Comparative Analysis of Scrum in Health, Malignant CJwlera and 

 Bilious Diarrhoea. 



Sp. gr. of the serum 1 -28. Reddened turmeric pajier. 



Dr. O'S. does not consider the morbid state of the blood as the 

 primary lesion in cholera ; he very properly regards it merely as an 

 effect of a deleterious agent, acting through the nervous system, but 

 considers that this thickened state of the blood may occasionally pro- 

 duce death, by a kind of suffocatiai. His practical inferences are, to 

 restore the blood to its natural sta.c of attenuation by diluent drinks ; 



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