GENERAL INDEX. 



353 



RETZIUS, on the absence of the spleen 



from the myxine, 273. 

 on the colourless blood of the am- 



phioxus, 273. 

 Rheumatic tumours, gelatinous fluid said 



to be found in, 198. 



RIGIDITY, after death, from hanging, suf- 

 focation, drowning, lightning, and 

 hunting, 20-1, 69. See Muscles. 

 ROBERTSON, Mr., his case of white 



serum, 83. 



RODENTS, on the size of the red cor- 

 puscles of the blood of, 218. 

 RODIER, referred to, 2. 

 Rolls or piles of the red corpuscles of the 



blood, xlvi, 221, 228. 

 Ross, Mr. G., on conversion of oily mat- 

 ter into a protein-compound, 88. 

 Royal Society, HEWSON elected a fellow 



of, xvi. 

 rule of as to disputes brought before, 



xxiii. 

 award of the COPLEY medal by, to 



HEWSON, xxiii-iv, 91. 

 RUDBECK, on the lymphatic system, 119, 



120. 

 RUDBECK and BARTHOLIN, discovery of 



the lymphatic system by, 245. 

 RUDOLPHI, on filaria frozen and revived 



by thawing, 19. 



Ruminants, on the size of the red cor- 

 puscles of the blood of, 218. 

 in the blood of the smaller species, 

 the red corpuscles smaller than 

 the lymph-corpuscles, 254. 

 RUSH, Dr., on white or chylous blood 



or serum, 85. See Serum. 

 RUSTON, Dr., on HEWSON'S paper on 

 emphysema, 94. See Emphysema. 

 RUYSCH, FRED., on the fibrous matter of 



the* blood-clot, xxviii. 

 his pseudo -membrane from blood, 



xxviii, xxx. 



cited on the valves of the lymphatic 

 system, 120, 126; on the glomeruli 

 of the kidney, 190 ; on the pencilli 

 of arteries, 191 ; on the size of the 

 lymphatic glands at different ages, 

 246. 



Saint Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, HEW- 

 SON a pupil at, xv. 

 SAISSY,M., on the fluid state of the blood 



during hybernation, 52. 

 Saline medicines, their effect on the blood 



in inflammation, 41. See Salts, 

 efficacy of, in inflammation, 231. 

 action of, on lymph-corpuscles and 



pale cells, 254. 



mixed with blood-discs in water to 

 show the nucleus, 232. 



Salmon, the curd of, perhaps converted 



into oily matter, 86. 



Salts, SENAC on their effect on the coa- 

 gulation of the blood, xxxiii. 

 effects of, in preventing the coagu- 

 lation of the blood, xxxviii. 

 employed by HEWSON and MULLER 

 to keep the fibrin liquid, and se- 

 parate it from the red corpuscles, 

 xli, xliii. 



effects of, on the size of the red cor- 

 puscles, 9. 



effects of, on the colour and coagula- 

 tion of the blood, 8, 9, 11-13, 71. 

 effects of, in preventing the clumping 

 of the red corpuscles in inflam- 

 mation, 71. See Buffy Coat, 

 solutions of, not adapted to measure 

 the specific gravity of fibrin nor of 

 the corpuscles of the blood, 74. 

 solutions of scarcely act on the buffy 



coat of the blood, 81. 

 effect of, on the red corpuscles of 

 the blood, Ixvi, 9, 220, 223, 229- 

 32, 274-5, 288. 



strong and weak solutions of, effects 



of, on the shape and size of the 



blood-discs, 229-32, 288. 



keep the corpuscles apart, 229, 231. 



SAUVAGES, confounded coagulable lymph 



with serum, xxx. 

 SCHENCKIUS, referred to on white serum, 



83. 

 SCHERER, on fibrin of arterial and venous 



blood, 81. 



SCHROSDER VAN DER KOLK, on the heat 

 most favorable to coagulation of 

 blood, 4. 



on buffy blood, 34. 

 on the effect of serum on the coagu- 

 lation of blood, 44. 



SCHULTZ, on the relation of lymph-cor- 

 puscles to the red corpuscles of the 

 blood, xlvii. 



on the effects of some substances on 



the red corpuscles of the blood, 9. 



on the effect of salt on the colour of 



splenic blood, 269. 

 on the blood of the splenic vein, 269. 

 on the use of the spleen, 273. 

 on red corpuscles in the chyle, 277. 

 SCHWANN, M., his cell-nucleus, andHfiw- 

 SON'S central particle, xlviii, 254. 

 formation of the fibrils of fibrin op- 

 posed to his theory, 14. 

 ScHWENKE,on the effects of different tem- 

 peratures on coagulation, 3. 

 thought the red corpuscles sink or 



rise in the blood-clot, 7. 

 on effects of salts on the blood, 11. 

 on the buffy coat of the blood, 30. 



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