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was clear, of a dark yellow colour, alkaline, and had a specific 

 gravity of 1020. 



It contained in 1000 parts : 



Water . . . 906-36 



Solid constituents .... 93*64 



Albumen .... 60-00 



Fat containing cholesterin . . 0-23 



Extractive matters, biliphacin, and a soda-soap . 24-04 



Fixed salts, chiefly chloride of sodium . 9'37 



A specimen examined by Percy contained in 1000 parts : 



Water . ,- . . . 927'4 



Solid constituents .... 72-6 

 Albumen .... 59'2 



Fat taken up by ether . . .a trace 



Alcohol-extract . . . .1-2 



Water-extract . . . .2-2 



Chloride of sodium with traces of chloride of potassium 6'0 

 Soda and lime, with sulphuric, phosphoric, and carbonic 

 acids . . . . 4-0 ] 



A matter obtained from the scrotum in another case of 

 hydrocele was of a brown colour, hardly fluid, but rather of a 

 pulpy consistence. Under the microscope 1 it was found to con- 

 tain an immense number of crystals of cholesterin, numerous 

 blood- and pus-corpuscles, and a yellow substance resembling 

 coagulated albumen. On heating, it coagulated like blood ; it 

 yielded a large amount of cholesterin to ether, and of hsemato- 

 globulin to hot spirit. 



[The following analyses by Scherer, of fluid effusions found 

 in the body after death, are worthy of notice. 



1. The fluid found in the abdominal cavity after death 

 from scirrhous degeneration of the chylopoietic viscera, con- 

 tained : 



1 [According to Heller, on making a microscopic examination of the fluid of 

 hydrocele, we may expect to find: 1, blood-corpuscles ; 2, fragments of epithelium ; 

 3, coagula of albumen or fibrin ; 4, fat ; 5, cholesterin ; 6, globules of inflammation ; 

 7, pus ; and 8, occasionally spermatozoa.] 



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