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GENERAL INDEX. 



PREVOST entertained the hypothesis that 

 the fibres of fibrin are formed of 

 colourless nuclei of the red cor- 

 puscles of the blood, xlii. 

 PRIESTLEY, Dr., on the effects of oxygen 

 and of some gases on the colour of 

 the blood, 8. See Blood, 

 his discovery of oxygen, 11. 

 Primitive cells, their agency in absorption, 

 nutrition, growth, and secretion, 

 179. 



PRINGLE, Sir JOHN, HEWSON'S friend, xv. 

 gave HEWSON a letter to the Pro- 

 fessors at Edinburgh, xv. 

 signed HEWSON'S certificate for the 



Royal Society, xvi. 

 examined the second edition of HEW- 

 SON'S work on the blood before it 

 was printed, xxiv. 



on the buffy coat of the blood, xxxiv. 

 referred to on white serum, 83. 

 case by, 162-3 



Protein, bi-oxyde and tri-oxyde of, 81. 

 PURKINJE, his researches on cells referred 



to, 170. 



Pus, Dr. HUNTER'S description of its ex- 

 istence in inflamed parts without 

 ulceration, xxxvii. 

 formed without ulceration, 162, 164, 



168. 



a secretion, 162, 164-5. 

 supposed action of on the solids, 165. 

 supposed to be formed from coagu- 



lable lymph, 165. 

 not so putrescent as some other 



juices, 165. 



sometimes absorbed, 171. 

 form of the corpuscles of, in the 



camelidae, 253. 



size of the globules of, see Measure- 

 ments. 



Putrefaction, pus not much prone to, 165. 

 effect of on the red corpuscles of the 



blood, 225, 226. 



the blood-corpuscles supposed to be 

 more prone to, than the rest of the 

 blood, 227. 



Putridity said not to occur in the blood 

 before its coagulation, 12, 69. 



QUATREFAGES, DE, on the colourless 

 blood of the amphioxus, 273. 



QUEKETT, Mr. JOHN, possesses an en- 

 graving of HEWSON, xix. 

 on the contents of the red corpuscles 



of the blood, 223. 



on particles detached from the blood- 

 discs, 225. 



QUESNAY on the buffy coat of the blood, 

 xxvii, xxxi. 



QUESNAY, (continued.} 



on the excess of the matter of the 

 buffy coat in the blood in inflam- 

 mation, and the formation of that 

 matter at the expense of the red 

 corpuscles, xxxi, xxxii, xli, 2 ; from 

 the action of the arteries, xxxi, 



on the parts of the blood, xxxi, 



on the effects of whipping the blood, 

 xxxi. 



on the coagulation of the blood, xxxi, 

 xxxix, xl. 



his hypothesis that the buffy coat of 

 the blood is formed by a trans- 

 formation of the red corpuscles, xli. 



on the effect of vascular action on 

 the blood, 44. 



on white or chylous blood or serum, 85. 



Rabbit, red corpuscles in the thoracic 



duct of, 277. 

 RASPAIL, M., on the contents of the red 



corpuscles of the blood, 223. 

 Recapitulation of the chief facts on the 



properties of the blood, 71. 

 Receptaculum chyli, comparatively less in 

 man than in some lower animals, 

 135. 



in the turtle, 148, 155. 

 in the haddock, 153, 155. 

 Rectum intestinum, villous coat of, 188. 

 Red corpuscles and serum of blood, spe- 

 cific gravity of a mixture of, 73. 

 REES, Dr., referred to on the power of 

 endosmose and exosmose of the 

 blood-corpuscles, 215. . 

 description by of the colourless part 

 of the red corpuscle of human 

 blood, 223. 



Remedies for hemorrhage, 57. 

 Renal glands, reference to observations on 



the office of, 255. 

 Rennet, effects of on serum, 80. 

 Reptiles, villi of intestines of, 189, 192. 

 form and size of the red corpuscles 



of the blood of, 218-19, 242. 

 pale corpuscles of the blood of, 243, 



253, 254. 

 ophidian, shape of the red corpuscles 



of the blood of, 312., 

 sizes of the corpuscles of the blood 



and lymph of, see Measurements. 

 Respiration, brightening of the blood 



by, 71. See Blood, 

 use of fat in, 88. See Fat. 

 on the source of the carbon exhaled 

 . in, 235. 



service of the thymus in, 280. 

 Rest, effect of on the coagulation of the 

 blood, xxxv, 16, 21, 22, 25, 72. 



