CONTENTS. Xlii 



CHAPTER III. 

 CHANGES WHICH THE BLOOD UNDERGOES IN DISEASE. 



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INTRODUCTION 136 



SECT. 1. VAEIATIONS IN THE PROPORTION OF THE PRINCIPAL CONSTITUENTS OP 



THE BC,OOD IN DISEASES IN GENERAL 139 



SECT. 2. THE CHANGES WHICH THE BLOOD UNDERGOES IN PARTICULAR DISEASES 145 



A. The Blood in Disorders of Nutrition : 



Anaemia 145 



Leucocythaemia (Leukaemia) 152 



Progressive Pernicious Anaemia 154 



Scurvy 156 



. Purpura Hemorrhagica and Haemophilia 157 



Gout 157 



Articular Rheumatism and Rheumatoid Arthritis .... 158 



Rickets and Osteomalacia 158 



B. The Blood in Fevers : 



Febricula or Ephemeral Fever 159 



Typhus Fever 159 



Typhoid Fever 159 



Relapsing Fever * ... 159 



Splenic Fever (of Cattle) 161 



Intermittent Fevers 162 



Scarlet Fever, Measles, Small-pox, Erysipelas ^_ . . 163 



The Blood hi Cholera 163 



C. The Blood in Diseases of the Heart 164 



D. The Blood hi Diseases of the Lungs 167 



E. The Blood in Diseases of the Liver 167 



F. The Blood in Diabetes Mellitus .168 



G. The Blood in Diseases of the Kidney 172 



CHAPTER IV. 

 THE BLOOD (continued). 

 DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN METHODS OF RESEARCH. 



Determination of the Specific Gravity of the blood .... 174 



Determination of the Reaction of blood 176 



Determination of the Water, Total Solids and Ash of the blood . 177 



Determination of the amount of Fibrin yielded by the blood . . 180 



Determination of Haemoglobin in the blood 182 



Determination of Cholesterin, Lecithin, and Fats in blood . . 187 



Determination of Water, Total Solids, and Salts of Serum . ' . 188 

 Determination of the total amount of Proteids contained in the Serum 



and of the Serum-albumin . 188 



