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GENERAL INDEX. 



Fibrin, (continued.) 



kept liquid by HEWSON and MULLER 

 by salts, in order to separate it 

 from the red corpuscles, xli, xliii. 



supposed to be formed of the colour- 

 less matter or nuclei of the red 

 corpuscles, xli-xlii, but the accu- 

 rate conclusions of HEWSON ge- 

 nerally remained current in Britain, 

 xlii-xliv. 



coagulation of supposed to produce 

 heat, xlii, but erroneously, as 

 proved by Mr. HUNTER, xlv. 



its liquid, viscid, and solid states, xlii. 



the term liquor sanguiuis in use be- 

 fore MULLER filtrated it from the 

 red corpuscles of the frog, xlii-iii. 



long known as the coagulable prin- 

 ciple of the blood, though the dis- 

 covery of that principle is ascribed 

 to Mr. HUNTER, xliv; his researches 

 on the organization of, xlv. 



distinguished by its fibres from albu- 

 men, xlv. 



motions described in the fibrils of, 

 xlv. 



when the term was introduced, xlv-vi. 



fibrils of, their formation, opposed 

 to the cell-theory, 14. 



change in fibrin after keeping, 15. 



coagulation of after it has been 

 dried, 21. 



masses of, called polypi, 23, 24. 



softening of, a common disease, 24. 



and albumen, xlv ; probably isomerical 

 substances, 30 ; but said to diifer in 

 their elements, 31. 



a salino-alkaline solution of, said to 

 form liquid albumen, 31. 



fibrils of in the clot form a mixture 

 of two kinds of serum, 31. 



experiments in which it is separated 

 from the red corpuscles, 31, 32. 



forms the buffy coat, 33. 



state of in the circulating blood, 14, 

 32, 73. 



supposed to be formed at the ex- 

 pense of the albumen, 38. 



and serum, coagulation of, 78, 79. 



its properties modified some time 

 after its coagulation, 81. 



action of oxygen on, 81. 



of arterial and venous blood, 81. 



and serum, M.Denis' view of, 31, 81. 



supposed conversion of albumen into 

 by the blood-discs, 235. 



supposed to be elaborated by the 

 pale corpuscles of the blood, 235. 



formed without the immediate agency 

 of the red corpuscles in the lymph- 



Fibrin, (continued.) 



atic vessels and lacteals, and in the 

 blood of invertebrata, 235 ; and 

 without either red or pale cor- 

 puscles in mixtures of serum, 235. 



supposed to be formed of the central 

 part of the red corpuscles, 235. 

 See Coagulable Lymph, Buffy Coat, 

 and Liquor Sanguinis. 

 Fibrinous clots, softening of, 24. 

 FIELD, Mr., and Mr. HENDY, 63, 66, 67. 

 Filaria capsularia, frozen and revived by 



thawing, 19. 

 Ferguson, the astronomer, signs HEWSON'S 



certificate for the Royal Society, xvi. 

 Fishes, the lacteals observed in by T. 

 BARTHOLIN, xxii. 



reading of HEWSON'S papers on the 

 lymphatic system in, xxiii. 



heat cannot be the cause of the 

 fluidity of their blood in winter, 

 xxxiii. 



in hot springs, 27. 



increase of oil in after death, 86. 



on the discovery of the lymphatic 

 system in, 91. 



lymphatics of, 121. 



and turtle, method of discovering 

 the lymphatics in, 151. 



villi intestinorum of, 189, 192. 



size and shape of the blood-discs 

 of 234 ; the envelopes very tender, 

 234 ; the shape of the nuclei, 234. 



the spleen wanting in some of the 

 cyclostomes, 273, 283. 



sizes of the blood-corpuscles of, see 



Measurements. 

 Fissures in the red corpuscles of the blood, 



226. See Corpuscles. 

 Flanders, HEWSON'S visit to, xvi. 

 FLANDRIN, on absorption of poison by 



branches of the portal vein, 180. 

 Fluid, of serous sacs, LOWER on the coagu- 

 lation of by heat, xxvi. 



of the lymphatic vessels, 123, 196-8. 



of the serous cavities, supposed to be 

 mere water, 157; properties of, 158 - 

 161 ; coagulation of at the heat of 

 the air when mixed with serum of 

 blood, 21, 31, 158, 196, 235. 



of the lymphatic vessels and serous 

 sacs compared to coagulable lymph 

 of blood, 165. 



of lymphatic vessels and of serous sacs 

 compared, 185. 



in the ventricles of brain not merely 

 an exudation, 170. 



animal, supposed series of globules 

 in, 182. 



in dropsies, nature of, 196-8. 



