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Coagulation of the blood, (continued.) 

 pellicle on when coagulation begins, 



59, 63, 73. 



sometimes does not occur, 68, 69. 

 causes said to prevent it, 68. 

 said to be altered by the blood-ves- 

 sels, 53-5, 70, 76. 



remaining long fluid in tumours, 70. 

 retarded by cold, 72. 

 promoted by air, 72. 

 slow in the body after death, 72. 

 retarded by contact with the living 



tissues, 72. 

 time required for, 161 ; hastened in 



weak animals, 161. 

 not taking place in frogs kept long 



without food, 161. 



Coagulation, of serum and fibrin, 78, 79. 

 by heat of a mixture of blood and 



salt, 6, 82. 

 of lymph which was fluid twenty -four 



hours after death, 161. 

 of the lymph, time required for, 161. 

 of the fluid of a blister, 196. 

 in a mixture of varieties of serum, 21, 



31, 158, 196, 235. 

 COCKSON, Mr., 66. 

 Cod, liver of, increase of oil in, after 



death, 86. 



Cod and whiting, lymphatic system of, 154. 

 Coins, red corpuscles of the blood laid to- 

 gether like, xlvi, 221, 228; re- 

 ferences to engravings of the 

 rolls, 221 ; the oval corpuscles not 

 running together so regularly, 228. 

 Cold, effects of, on the coagulation of the 

 blood, xxxiii, xxxv, 17, 18, 20, 21, 

 50-52, 61, 72. 



effects of, on the blood, 42, 61, 64. 

 thickens the blood, 64, 65, 72. 

 retards the coagulation of the blood, 



72. See Heat. 



COLLINS, Dr. S., on the coagulation of the 

 blood, on polypi of the heart, and 

 on the structure of the crassamen- 

 tum and buffy coat, xxvi, xxvii. 

 Colon, villous coat of, 188. 

 Colour of the blood, effect of air, oxygen, 

 and some gases on, 8. See Blood. 

 Colour, florid, of the surface of the cras- 

 samentum, caused by ah>71 ; and 

 of the blood in passing through 

 the lungs, 71. See Blood, &c. 

 Consumption, pulmonary, seat of the tu- 

 bercle in, 138. 

 Contractility of muscles, causes said to 



destroy it, 20, 21. 



Contraction of the blood-clot, diminished 

 by aqueous saline solutions, but not 

 so by mucilaginous ones, 13. 



COOK, JOHN, on the coagulation of the 



blood, xxviii, xxix. 

 COOPER, Sir A., on the effects of air on the 



coagulation of the blood, 20. 

 on coagulation of blood in living and 



dead veins, 23. 



on the structure of the breast, 191. 

 on the structure and use of the thy- 



mus, 257, 261. 

 on the lymphatic ducts of the thy- 



mus, 281. 

 COPLAND, Dr., on the formation of the 



buffy coat of the blood, 235. 

 COPLEY, Sir GODFREY, award of his medal 



to HEWSON, xxiii, xxiv, 91. 

 CORNISH, Mr., on the blood of torpid 



bats, 52. 



Corpora globosa of the kidney, 190. 

 Corpuscles, red, of the blood, adding them 



to blood, or to diluted blood and 



salt, promotes coagulation, 6. 

 first publication of HEWSON'S paper 



on, xxiv. 



discovered by Malpighi, xxvi. 

 called globosae vesiculae by BIDLOO, 



xxvii, 222. 

 supposed to be converted into fibrin, 



xxvii, xxviii, 2, 31, 235-6. 

 supposed to be the self-coagulating 



principle of the blood, xxviii, xxix. 

 supposed change of, into the buffy 



coat, xxxi, xxxii. 

 notice of HEWSON'S experiments on 



their sinking in the blood and in 



serum, xxxi, xxxviii. 

 specific gravity of, xxxv, 73^4. 

 the fibrin separated from them, and 



their integrity preserved by salts, 



xli, xliii. 

 hypothesis that the fibrin is formed 



of their. colourless part or nuclei, 



xli-xliii. 

 the coagulation of the blood attributed 



to them, xxvii, xxix, xliii. 

 differ from the globules of the tissues, 



xliii, 

 wanting in the very young embryo of 



vertebrata, xliv-v. 



Mr. HUNTER observed their aggre- 

 gation during the formation of the 



buffy coat, xlv. 

 their flat figure, xlvi. 

 seen laid together like coins, xlvi, 221. 

 effect of water on, xlvi, 215, 221-4, 



230, 274, 288. 



effect of saline matter on, xlvi, 274-5. 

 nucleus of, in lower vertebrata^ xlvi. 

 differ in the same blood, xlvi, 232-3. 

 larger in the embryo than in the 



adult, xlvi. 



