OOIsTTEI^TS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



General considerations Vital properties of organized structures Proximate 

 principles Inorganic principles Organic non-nitrogenized principles Or- 

 ganic nitrogenized principles, Page 13 



CHAPTER I. 



THE BLOOD. 



General considerations Transfusion Quantity Physical characters Opacity 

 Temperature Specific gravity Color Anatomical elements of the blood 

 Red corpuscles Chemical characters of red corpuscles Development of red 

 corpuscles Formation of red corpuscles Leucocytes, or white corpuscles 

 Development of leucocytes, 95 



CHAPTER II. 



COMPOSITION OF THE BLOOD. 



General considerations Methods of quantitative analysis Fibrin Corpuscles 

 Albumen Inorganic constituents Sugar Fatty emulsion Coloring matter 

 of the serum Urea and the urates Cholesterine Creatine Creatinine, 127 



CHAPTER III. 



COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD. 



General considerations Characters of the clot Characters of the serum Coagu- 

 lating principle in the blood Circumstances which modify coagulation Co- 

 agulation of the blood in the organism Spontaneous arrest of hemorrhage 

 Cause of coagulation of the blood Summary of the properties and functions 

 of the blood, .... .142 



