356 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Size, or inflammatory crust, formation of, 



30, see Buffy Coat. 

 Skin, villi or papillae of, 193. 

 Sloth, large size of the red corpuscles 



of its blood, 218. See Corpuscles. 

 Slough, the term applied hy Dr. HUNTER 



to coagulated lymph on inflamed 



serous membranes, xxxvii. 

 Slow-worm, blood-discs of a" narrower 



ellipse than those of its congeners, 



312. See Corpuscles. 



SMITH, Dr. HUGH, attended on physic 



by HEWSON, xv. 

 his knowledge of the three parts of 



the blood, xxxvi. 

 SMITH, Dr. ANDREW, on the coagulation 



of the blood of hunted antelopes, 



21. 



SMITH, Dr. JAMES CARMICHAEL, 88. 

 Snake, its blood-discs differ in shape from 



those of the slow-worm, 312. 

 Snowy owl, its blood-discs a narrower 



ellipse than those of its congeners, 



313. See Corpuscles, red, of the 

 blood. 



Softening of fibrin, 24. 

 SONNERAT, on fishes in hot springs, 27. 

 Specific gravity of the serum of blood, 

 xxxv, 2, 78. See Serum. 



of the crassamentum, xxxv. 



of the buffy coat of the blood, xxxv, 

 73-4. 



of the red corpuscles, xxxv, 73-4. 



of the fluid of a hydrocele, 73. 



of different parts of the blood, 73-4. 



of some parts incorrectly inferred 

 by immersion in saline solutions, 

 73-4. 



of serum of buffy blood, 38. 

 SPIGELIUS, referred to on the spleen, 



265, 267. 



Spirit of wine, BOYLE noticed that it co- 

 agulates serum, xxvi. 

 Spirit, nitro-aerial, MAYOW'S, 7, 11. 

 Spleen, HEWSON'S lecture on the use of 

 the, xvii. 



first publication of HEWSON'S views 

 as to the use of, xxiv. 



lymphatic vessels of, and their con- 

 tents and use of, notice of HEW- 

 SON'S observations on, xlvii. 



lymphatic glands, and thymus, 121, 

 127. 



and pancreas, lymphatics of, 133. 



kidneys, and liver, lymphatics of, 

 133-4. 



on its situation and structure, 264-8. 



speculations on its use, 264, 284. 



sometimes several spleens, 265. 



on the size and weight of the, 265-6. 



Spleen, (contimied.) 

 colour of, 266-7. 

 softness of, when putrefied, 267. 

 cells of, 267-8, 270. 

 properties of the blood of, 269, 283, 



289. 



lymphatic vessels of, 269-71 ; fluid 

 of these lymphatics, 271-2, 276, 

 289 ; red particles in it, xlvii, 272. 

 office of, 273, 275. 

 cases in which it was cut out with- 

 out any ill effect, 275. 

 several spleens in a sturgeon, 273. 

 its concern in the formation of the 



red corpuscles of the blood, 275. 

 envelopes of the red corpuscles of 

 the blood supposed to be formed 

 by, 282-6, 289. 

 absent in some of the lowest fishes, 



273, 283. 



pale corpuscles in the blood of, 283. 

 its lymphatics considered as its ex- 

 cretory ducts, 281, 283, 289. 

 nuclei in the red corpuscles of the 



blood of, in a goose, 283. 

 red and pale corpuscles of the blood 

 of, compared with those from the 

 heart, 283. 



arguments as to its use from the ex- 

 tirpation of, 284-5, 289-90. 

 red colour of the lymph of, 276, 



289. 

 considered as an appendage to the 



lymphatic vessels, 289-90. 

 Splenic lymph, red corpuscles in, xlvii. 

 Splenic blood, clots in, 69. See Spleen. 

 Spot, central, of the red blood-corpuscles, 



216. See Corpuscles, red. 

 Springs, hot, fishes living in, 27. 

 SPROEGEL on the effects of air on the 



coagulation of the blood, 19. 

 Stagnation darkens the blood, 66. 

 Stanley musk-deer, its minute red blood- 

 corpuscles, 219. See Musk Deer. 

 STARK, Dr., 297, 301. 



on the nutritious qualities of fat, 87- 



88. 



notice of him and his works, 87-88. 

 on HEWSON'S paper on emphysema, 



94. 

 STEVENS, Dr., on the colour of the blood, 



8,9. 



STEVENSON, Miss, HEWSON'S first ac- 

 quaintance and marriage with, xiv. 

 her marriage to HEWSON, xiv, xvi, 



xx. 



notice of her, xx. 

 MARGARET, Mrs. HEWSON'S mother, 



xx. 

 STOKER, Dr., on buffy blood, 34. 



