GENERAL INDEX. 



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Serum, (continued.') 



in the huffy coat of the blood, 32, 41. 



red corpuscles sink slower in, than 

 in blood, 37. 



consistency and specific gravity of, in 

 buffy blood, 38. 



consistency and specific gravity of the 

 serum separating at different times 

 from the same clot, 38-9. 



of lower specific gravity than coagu- 

 lated lymph, 40. 



paces of sinking in it of the corpuscles 

 of buffy blood, 41. 



effect of, on the coagulation of the 

 blood, 44. 



and crassamentum, heat most fa- 

 vorable to the separation of, 71. 



and fibrin, coagulation of, 78-9. 



how differing from coagulable lymph, 

 6, 30, 78-80. 



properties of, 78-9. 



inspissation of, by evaporation, 79-80. 



its coagulable matter termed muci- 

 lage, 78-80, 232. 



effect of rennet on, 80. 



when diluted, requires more heat to 

 coagulate it, 28, 80. 



and milk, effects of boiling and of 

 rennet on, compared, 80-1. 



white, or milk-like, account of, 78, 82; 

 microscopic examination of, 82 ; 

 instances of, from authors, 83 ; 

 cases of, in geese, 84, 89; the 

 white matter fatty, 85 ; found 

 on the surface of arterial and ve- 

 nous blood, 85 ; owing to chyle, 

 85, 87 ; another kind of white se- 

 rum in disease, 85-6, 173 ; specific 

 gravity of, 38, 86 ; supposed to be 

 owing to the absorption of fatty 

 matter from its cells, 86 ; supposed 

 to be caused by absorption of oil, 

 86-9. 



of horse's blood, causes a clumping 

 among the red corpuscles of an- 

 other animal, 215. 



used to dilute the blood in examining 

 the red corpuscles, 215, 219. 



its effect, when beginning to putrefy, 

 on the red corpuscles of the blood, 

 225. 



preserves the flatness of the blood- 

 discs by its salts, 229. 



green in a caterpillar, 234. 



mixtures of varieties of, fibrin formed 

 in, 235. See Fibrin, and Coagula- 

 tion of Serum. 

 Serum of serous sacs, see Fluid, and Serous 



Sacs. 

 Sharks, blood-corpuscles of, 234. 



SHARPEY, Dr., on Dr. GORDON'S account 

 of serum and fibrin of the blood, 

 xliii. 

 Sheep, coagulation of the blood of, 24. 



coagulation of blood flowing from 

 slaughtered, 46-7, 57. 



struggles of one dying, seemed to 

 alter the blood, 76. 



villi of intestines of, 187. 

 SHELDON, Mr., a lecturer on anatomy at 

 Windmill-street, xvi. 



his commendation of HEWSON'S in- 

 quiries on the lymphatic system of 

 oviparous vertebrata, xxiv. 



on the contraction of lymphatic ves- 

 sels, 126. 



on the beginning of the lacteals in 



the villi, 181. 



Shrimp, blood-corpuscles of the, 234. 

 Skates, blood-corpuscles of, 234. 

 SIDDALL, Mr., on the coagulation of the 



splenic blood, 269. 



SIMMONS, Dr. SAMUEL FOART, his life 

 of Dr. HUNTER referred to, xiii. 



as to the claim of priority between 

 FORDYCE and HEWSON on the 

 formation of the buffy coat, xxxviii. 

 SIMON, Dr., on the transformation of the 

 red corpuscles into fibrin, xxviii, 

 xxxi, 2. 



on the relation of lymph-corpuscles 

 to the red corpuscles of the blood, 

 xlvii. 



on increase of fibrin and decrease of 

 red corpuscles in blood during in- 

 flammation, 2. 



on the effects of salts on coagulation 

 of the blood, 13. 



on the blood of the horse, 40. 



on the source of carbon exhaled from 

 the lungs, 235. 



on the office of the red corpuscles of 

 the blood, 235-6. 



on the blood of the portal vein, 269. 



on red corpuscles in the thoracic 

 duct of the rabbit and horse, 277. 



on the absence of pale corpuscles 

 from the blood of the spleen, 283. 

 SIMON, Mr., considers the globules of the 

 thymus fluid as nuclei, 254. 



referred to on the structure of the 

 tbymus, 257 ; and on its develop- 

 ment, 263. 



on the use of the thymus, 280. 

 SIMSON, Dr., on the production of the 

 buffy coat of the blood by a liga- 

 ture on the limb, 65, 67. 

 Sinking of the red corpuscles produces the 

 buffy coat of the blood, 57. See 

 Corpuscles, and Buffy Coat. 



