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Buffy coat of the blood, (continued.) 



effect of saline medicines in inflam- 

 mation, 41. 



sometimes partial, 45. 



supposed to be formed quickly by 

 vascular action, 48. 



red pellicle over, 49. 



connexion of vascular action with, 

 55, 56, 61. 



not a certain guide for bloodletting, 

 48, 56, 57. 



formed by sinking of the red cor- 

 puscles, 57. 



from slow coagulation, 57 ; but most 

 from thinning of the blood, 58, 



texture of, at the top and bottom of 

 the clot, 59. 



not a new-formed substance, 73, but 

 merely the coagulable lymph mixed 

 with serum, 73. 



composed of oxydes of protein, 81. 



slices of it kept scarcely changed for 



months in saline solutions, 81. 

 Bullocks, jelly-like matter in the pericar- 

 dium of, after death, 198. 

 BURDACH, Professor, opposed the hypo- 

 thesis that the fibrils of fibrin are 

 composed of globules, xliii. 



on the heat most favorable to the co- 

 agulation of the blood, 4. 



on the formation of lymph-corpuscles 



in the lymphatic vessels, 278. 

 Bust of HEWSON, xix. 

 Butcher-bird, blood-discs of, a narrow 



ellipse, 313. See Corpuscles. 

 BUTT, Dr. J. M., on the coagulable lymph, 

 xxix. 



on the effects of different tempera- 

 tures on coagulation of blood, 3. 



on the serosity, xxxiv, 79. 



his description of the blood-clot, 

 xxxiv. 



on the buffy coat, the serum, and 

 serosity of the blood, xxxiv. 



used the term coagulable lymph, xxxiv. 



CALDWELL, Mrs., daughter of HEWSON, 



xxi. 



Calf, cavities in intestinal villi of, 187. 

 villi of intestines of, 187. 

 thymus of, its lymphatic vessels, 26 L 

 Caloric, effects of on the blood. See Heat. 

 Camelidae, shape, size, and structure of 

 the red corpuscles of the blood of, 

 218. See Corpuscles, 

 red corpuscles of the blood of agree in 

 structure with the corpuscles of 

 other mammals, 222. 

 red corpuscles of, manner in which 

 they aggregate, 228. 



Camelidae, (continued.) 



round shape of the corpuscles of the 

 lymph, thymus fluid, pus, and pale 

 corpuscles of the blood in, 253. 

 Cancer of the breast, the lymphatic glands 

 affected in, 201 ; also in cancer of 

 the lips, 202. 



early excision of recommended, 203. 

 Capybara, size of the red corpuscles of the 



blood of, 218. See Corpuscles. 

 Carbon, exhaled from the lungs, on the 



source of, 235. 



Carbonic acid, darkens the blood, 8. 

 effect of, on the red corpuscles, 9. 

 effect of, on coagulation of blood, 20. 

 Carnivora, size of the red corpuscles of the 



blood of, 218. See Corpuscles. 

 CARPENTER, Dr., on buffy blood, 41. 

 on waste reorganizable matter, 88. 

 referred to, 181. 

 on the formation of fibrin, 235. 

 CARSON, Dr., on absorption by lympha- 

 tics, 180. See Absorption. 

 Cartilage, articular, hypertrophy and 



atrophy of, 179. 

 Cassowary, size of the blood-corpuscles 



of, 219. See Corpuscles. 

 Cat, villi of intestines of, 187. 

 Cats, size of the red blood-discs of, 218. 

 Caterpillar, blood-corpuscles and serum of 



green, 234. 



CAVENDISH, the Hon. HENRY, on the 

 council which awarded the Copley 

 medal to HEWSON, xxiii. 

 Cell, primitive, an organ of absorption, nu- 

 trition, growth, and secretion, 179. 

 Cell-nucleus of the present day, and HEW- 

 SON 's central particle, xlviii. 

 Cells, fatty seeds or nucleoli of, 88. 



agency of, in secretion, &c., 170, 179. 



SCHWANN'S theory of, 14. 



Central particles, see Nucleus, Corpuscles 



of Lymph, Corpuscles of the Blood. 



notice of HEWSON'S doctrine of, xlvii. 



Central spot of the red corpuscles of the 



blood, 216. 

 Cercoleptes, like the viverridae in the size 



of its blood-discs, 218. 

 Chancre, excision of, recommended, 203. 

 Charcoal fire, fumes of, effect on the coa- 

 gulation of the blood, 68. 

 Chest, air in, HEWSON'S paper on, 291. 

 air escaping from, not always a proof 



of a wound in the lungs, 299. 

 CHESTON, Mr., case of emphysema by, 222 

 Chick in ovo, has larger and rounder blood- 

 corpuscles than the hen, 233. 

 CHRISTISON, Dr., on white serum, 85. 

 on the effect of oxygen on the colour 

 of the blood, 8. 



