518 ABSORPTION. 



man lymph by Gubler and Quevenne, the proportion was 

 from sixty to sixty-five parts per 1,000, and in the analysis 

 of Lheritier, which gives the largest quantities of solid mat- 

 ter, the proportion was between seventy-five and seventy-six 

 parts. 1 



In all analyses, except those of Lheritier, the organic ni- 

 trogenized compounds have been found to be very much less 

 in the lymph than in the blood. This is generally most 

 marked with regard to the fibrin ; but, as before stated, the 

 proportion of all these ingredients is quite variable. On ac- 



1 A series of very elaborate analyses of the human lymph has recently been 

 made by Dahnhardt, under the direction of Professor Hensen. The fluid was col- 

 lected from a patient suffering from elephantiasis, or some analogous affection, in 

 which the lymphatics were found dilated. These observations have already been 

 referred to, and it is probable that the fluid obtained was not normal lymph. The 

 analyses, however, were exceedingly minute, especially as regards the proportions 

 of inorganic matters. The following is one of the analyses of this fluid : 



Water 987*700 



Fat 0-030 



Organic extractives soluble in alcohol 1-284 



Organic extractives soluble in water = extractive and albumen 0'908 



Organic substances insoluble in water = fibrin and insoluble albumen. 1*699 



r Chloride of sodium 6-148 



Soda 0-576 



Inorganic substances soluble I Potagh Q . 493 



mwater ' 1 Carbonic acid 0-638 



^Sulphuric and phosphoric acid and loss, 0-221 



fChalk 0-132 



Magnesia 0-011 



Oxide of iron 0'006 



Phosphoric acid 0*118 



Carbonic acid 0'015 



Carbonate cf magnesia, sulphuric acid, 



and loss 0-021 



Inorganic substances insolu- 

 uble in water, 



1,000-000 



DAHNHARDT, Ztur Chemie der Lymphe. VIRCHOW'S Archiv, Berlin, 1866, 



Bd. xxxvii., S. 55 et seq. 



Analyses of the same lymph for organic matter, by Professor Hensen, give a 

 proportion of 1*070 of fibrin, 1-408 of serum-albumen, and 0-894 of albummous 

 compounds precipitated by acetic acid. 



