CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Introduction, on the Life and Writings of Hewson, with a History of the 



Coagulation of the Blood .... . xiii 



List of Hewson's Writings ...... xlix 



General Index 321 



PART I. 



PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD. 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the Separation of the Serum ; the Colour of the Crassamentum ; and 



of the Causes of the Coagulation of the Blood ... 1 



CHAPTER II. 

 Of the Inflammatory Crust, or Size ..... 30 



CHAPTER III. 



Of the Causes of the Inflammatory Crust's appearing at different times in 

 Bloodletting ; of the Stopping of Hemorrhages ; and of the Effects 

 of Cold upon the Blood . . . . . .12 



CHAPTER IV. 



Some further Observations on the oagulahle Lymph, and on the Sudden 



Changes produced upon it. . . . . 53 



CHAPTER V. 



Containing a Recapitulation of the principal Facts and Conclusions that are 



mentioned in the preceding pages . . 71 



CHAPTER VI. 



Of the Serum of the Blood, and particularly of the Milk-like Serum . 78 



Of the White Serum 82 



