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GENERAL INDEX. 



Coagulation of the blood, (continued.) 



the serum described as spontaneously 

 coagulable, xxix, xxxix ; and con- 

 founded with the coagulable lymph, 

 xxx, 6, 30. 



HALLER and MARHKRR on, xxix, 

 xxx, xxxix, xl. 



QUESNAY on, xxxi, xxxix, xl. 



correct views of PETIT on, xxx, xxxi, 

 xxxix, xl. 



on the prevention of, by whipping, 

 xxxi-xxxiv. 



SEN AC on, xxxii-xxxiv, xxxix, xl. 



not caused by cold, xxxiii. 



supposed to be prevented by its heat, 

 and by agitation, xxxiii. 



SENAC on the effects of salts on, 

 xxxiii-iv ; and of air, xxxiii. 



supposed to be promoted by cold and 

 rest, xxxv. 



Dr. DAVIES on, xxxv-vi. 



Dr. WILLIAM HUNTER on, xxvi. 



Dr. G. FORDYCE on the retarding 

 effect of the blood-vessels on, and 

 on the prevention of by salt, xxxviii. 



errors from a neglect of the accurate 

 observations of the old physiolo- 

 gists on, xxxix, xliv. 



clear proofs, by HEWSON, that it is 

 alone dependent on the fibrin, 

 xli, xliii. 



errors of Sir EVERARD HOME and 

 others, xli, xliii, disregarded in 

 Britain, where HEWSON'S views 

 continued, xlii. 



Mr. HUNTER'S views on the con- 

 nexion of life with, xlv, 21 ; his ob- 

 servation that no heat is produced 

 by coagulation, xlv. 



causes of, 1, 19-21. 



effects of different temperatures on, 

 3-6; prevented by higher tempera- 

 tures, 4-6. 



promoted by warmth, 3, 51 ; especially 

 at 98 and a little higher, 4, 5. 

 See Heat. 



of blood and salt, 5. 



of salt and liquor sanguinis diluted 

 with water, 6. 



hastened by adding red corpuscles to 

 diluted liquor sanguinis and salt, 

 and to pure blood, 6. 



different effects of saline solutions of 

 different strengths on, 13. 



precedes its putrefaction, 12, 69. 



retarded by mucilage, 13. 



very slow when confined in veins, 16. 



effects of air on, 8, 9, 18-21, 25, 61, 

 64, 72. 



effects of salts on, 11, 12. 



Coagulation of the blood, (continued.) 

 effect of agitation on, 15, 16. 

 effects of cold on, 17, 18, 20, 21,50, 



51, 52, 61, 72. See Cold, 

 effects of freezing and of thawing on, 



17-19, 21, 25,26. 

 effect of rest on, 16, 19, 20, 21, 



25, 72. 

 effects of lightning or electricity on, 



20; and of hunting, 21. 

 effects of air, of a vacuum, of nitro- 

 gen, of nitrous gas, of oxygen, 



nitrous oxide, carbonic acid, and 



of hydrocarbon on, 20. 

 effect of water on, 44. 

 effect of serum on, 44. 

 probably hastened by the fluid of the 



lymphatics in the last flowing 



blood, 44. 

 effect of red corpuscles on, 6, 



34, 44. 



effect of the action of the blood- 

 vessels on, 65, 68. 

 effects of struggles of a dying animal 



on, 57, 76. 

 effect of suffocation, of drowning, 



and of hanging on, 68, 69. 

 cause of its fluidity unknown, 20. 

 not caused by air, 19. 

 not caused by cold, 20, 21. 

 not caused by rest, 20, 21. 

 said to be an act of life, 21. 

 in hunted animals, 21. 

 in veins, 16, 21-23. 

 confined in living and dead parts, 23. 

 time required for, in different animals 



and constitutions, 24, 25. 

 forming false conceptions or moles 



in the uterus, 25. 

 in aneurisms, 25. 

 in amputations, 25. 

 prevented by what heat in diluted 



salt and blood, 27. See Heat, 

 in inflammation, 33-36, 53, 55. 

 retarded by the separation of the cor- 

 puscles, 6, 34, 44. 

 slow in the heart after death, 36, 37 ; 



and yet may be without a buffy 



coat, 37. 



hastened by faintness, 46, 47, 57. 

 from slaughtered sheep, 44, 46, 47. 

 in hybernating animals, 52. 

 slower in inflammation, 53, 55. 

 hastened by weakness and diminished 



vascular action, 53, 54. 

 retarded by strong vascular action, 55, 



76. 

 may be retarded without thinning of 



the lymph, 58. See Buffy Coat, 

 later in plethora, 59. 



