COMPOSITION OF THE BLOOD-PLASMA. 19 



CONSTITUENTS OF THE BLOOD-PLASMA. 



Specific gravity, 1028. 



Water, 779 parts per 1,000 in the male; 791 parts per 1,000 in the female; 

 Sodium chloride, 3 to 4 parts per 1,000. 

 Potassium chloride, 0'359 parts per 1,000. 

 Ammonium chloride, proportion not determined. 

 Potassium sulphate, 0'288 parts per 1,000. 

 Sodium sulphate, proportion not determined. 

 Potassium carbonate, proportion not determined. 

 Sodium carbonate (with sodium bicarbonate), 1*200 parts per 1,000. 

 Magnesium carbonate, proportion not determined. 

 Calcium phosphate of the bones, and neutral phosphate, 

 Magnesium phosphate, 



Potassium phosphate, }> 1'500 parts per 1,000. 



Ferric phosphate (probable), 

 Basic phosphates and neutral sodium phosphate, 

 Silica, copper, lead, and magnesia, traces occasionally. 



Sodium lactate, proportion not determined. 



Calcium lactate (probable), proportion not determined. 



Sodium oleate, 



" palmitatc, 



" stearate, 



" valcrate, 



butyrate, M '475 parts 



f Oleine, 

 Palmitine, 

 Stearine, 



g g -I Lecethine, containing nitrogen and called phosphorized fatty matter, 0'400 parts per 1 ,000. 

 Glucose, 0-002 parts per 1,000. 

 Glycogen, proportion not determined. 

 Inosite, proporticn not determined. 



f Carbon dioxide in solution. 



Urea, 0'177 parts per 1,000, in arterial blood ; 0'088, in the blood of the renal vein. 

 Sodium urate, proportion not determined. 

 Potassium urate (probable), proportion not determined. 

 Calcium urate, " " 



Magnesium urate, " " " " 



Ammonium urate, " " " " 

 Sodium sudorates, etc., " " 



Inosates, '* " 



Oxalates, " " " 



Creatinine, " * " 



Leucine, " " " 



Hypoxanthine, " " " 

 Cholesterine, 0-455 to 0'751 parts per 1,000, in the entire blood. 



( Fibrin, 3 parts per 1,000. 

 f Plasmine, 25 parts (dried) per 1,000. < Metalbumin> M part8 per 1>ooa 



^ Serine, 53 parts (dried) per 1,000. 



I Peptones, 4 parts (dried) and 28 parts (mcist) per 1,000. 

 I Coloring matters of the plasma, proportion and characters not determined. 



