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GENERAL INDEX. 



Corpuscles, red, of the blood, (continued.) 



split into pieces to the centre, and 

 each portion retains its red colour, 

 xlvi, 226. 



relation of lymph-corpuscles to, xlvii, 

 254, 277. 



found in the lymph of the spleen and 

 of other parts of the lymphatic 

 system, xlvii ; their red envelopes 

 supposed to be formed there, 273, 

 282-3. 



their density or cohesion said by 

 SENAC to affect the colour of the 

 blood, 8. 



effects of salts, sugar, oxygen, and 

 water, on the size of, 9. 



the colour of the blood affected by 

 changes in them, 9, 10. 



not forming fibrin in mixtures of se- 

 rum, 32. See Fibrin. 



their state in buffy blood, 34, 40, 41. 



their paces of sinking in buffy blood, 

 34, 38. See Buffy Coat of the Blood. 



their separation from the liquor san- 

 guinis retards its coagulation, 34. 



sink faster in blood than in serum, 

 37, 40. 



specific gravity of, xxxv, 73 ; and in 

 buffy blood, 38, 39. 



their running into rolls, 41, 221, 

 228. 



of buffy blood, their aggregation, 

 34, 40, 41, 221, 229, 231; and 

 effect of saline medicines on, 41. 



their paces of sinking, and how af- 

 fected by their aggregation and by 

 the consistency of the blood, 40-1. 



their sinking in the serum, 41. 



hasten the coagulation of the blood, 

 44. 



sinking of, produce the buffy coat, 57. 



their rate of sinking in a fluid may 

 give a wrong idea of its viscidity 

 or density, 58. 



their clumping in the blood in inflam- 

 mation prevented by neutral salts, 

 41, 71. 



their sinking in the formation of the 

 buffy coat attributed to a thinning 

 of the lymph, 73. 



found generally in the vertebrata, 211. 



on the figure and composition of, 21 1. 



development of in the animal series, 

 212. 



thickness of the corpuscle in relation 

 to its breadth, 215, 216. 



their flat figure, xlvi, 214, 219-21, 

 227-9, 231, 274, 287-8. 



described as flat as a guinea, or shil- 

 ling, 215, 287-8. 



Corpuscles, red of the blood, (continued.} 



how to dilute the blood, to examine 

 them, 215, 219-20. 



membranous and colourless base o 

 the corpuscle, 215, 223. 



depression in, 216. 



central spot, 216, 220, 221, 224, 226, 

 287. 



dimensions of the corpuscles of man, 

 216 ; and of other vertebrata, 

 217-19. See Measurements. 



nucleus of the corpuscles of oviparous 

 vertebrata, 216,222, 224, 253,288 ; 

 no such nucleus in mammals, 222, 

 except in very young embryos, 222 ; 

 figure of the red corpuscles in such 

 embryos, 216. 



their size and form in different adult 

 animals, 217-19; and in man, 

 216. 



measurements of, see Measurements. 



no relation in different orders of mam- 

 mals as to the size of the animal and 

 that of its corpuscles, 218, though 

 there is in a single family, 218, and 

 in the entire class of birds the law 

 .for the size of the corpuscles the 

 same as in a single family of mam- 

 mals, 219. 



action of a saline solution on, 41, 220, 



223, 229, 231-2, 274-5, 288. 



the corpuscles are solid, and not oily, 

 or more inflammable than the rest 

 of the blood, 220, 227. 



supposed hole in the corpuscles, 221, 



224, 225, 287. 



laid together like coins, 221, 228. 

 viscidity of, 221. 

 vesicles of, 221-4, 225, 226. 

 puckering or shrinking of the cor- 

 puscles of mammals, 223, 225. 

 effect of dilute muriatic acid on, 223. 

 deviations from the regular shape of, 



223, 225, 229. 

 contents of, 223. 

 effects of incipient putrefaction on, 



225. 



shape of the nucleus in birds, 225. 

 effect of water on the nucleus, 225, 



and of acetic acid, 225. 

 molecules attached to, and detached 



from, the red corpuscles, 225. 

 spontaneous division of the corpuscles, 



xlvi, 225, 226. 

 fissures through, 226. 

 not breaking into any regular number 



of pieces nor into pale globules,226. 

 nucleus seen to escape from a fissure 



in the envelope, 226. 

 mode of showing the nucleus, 232. 



