GENERAL INDEX. 



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Vascular action, (continued.) 



connexion of with the buffy coat of the 



blood, 55-7, 6 1,65. See Buffy Coat. 



its effect onthepropertiesof the blood, 



72, 74, 75. 

 when strong, said to thin the lymph 



and retard its coagulation, 76. 

 Veins of living animals, coagulation of 

 blood in, at different heats, 4, 

 26, 51. See Coagulation, 

 coagulation of blood confined in, in 



the body, 16, 21-3. 

 whether they do the office of absorp- 

 tion, 171-2. See Absorption, 

 supposed formerly to absorb both 



chyle and lymph, 172. 

 obstruction of by coagulated blood, 



connected with oedema, 174-5. 

 arguments for absorption by, 177. 

 instances of absorption without them, 



179. 



on absorption by, 180. 

 lymphatics supposed to be veins, 186. 

 question of absorption by, 199. 

 Veins, mesenteric, see Mesenteric Veins. 

 Vena cava, dropsy produced by a liga- 

 ture on, 174. See Dropsy, 

 portae, on the blood of the, 269. 

 Venous and arterial blood, colour of, 



7, 8, 10. See Blood, 

 blood, sometimes scarlet, 10, 71. 

 Venereal bubo, glands in which it is 

 seated, 129. See Lymphatic Glands, 

 poison, sometimes enters the consti- 

 tution without causing a bubo, 203. 

 sore, excision of recommended, 203. 

 Vera Cruz, HEWSON'S eldest son died 



at, xxi. 



VERDUC, JOHN BABTIST, on the coagula- 

 tion of the blood, xxvii. 

 called the serum serosity, xxvii. 

 used the term mucilage for the self- 

 coagulating part of the blood, 232. 

 VERHEYEN, PHILIP, on the coagulation 



of the blood, xxix. 

 VERSCHUIR, Dr., on irritability in the 



coats of the blood-vessels, 124. 

 Vertebrata, discovery of the paleness of 

 the blood in young embryos of, 

 xliv-v, 222. See Blood, 

 have red blood-corpuscles, 211 ; ex- 

 cept the amphioxus, 234. 

 corpuscles of the lymph of, 212. 

 paleness in the blood of very young 

 embryos of, 222 ; and abundance of 

 pale corpuscles in, 222. 

 oviparous, see Oviparous Vertebrata. 

 sizes of the corpuscles of blood, 

 lymph, chyle, and pus in, see Mea- 

 surements. 



Vesicle of the red corpuscle of the blood, 



nucleus within the, how seen like 



a pea in a bladder, 274. 

 effect of water on, and neutral salts 



on, 274-5. 

 adhesion between the vesicle and 



nucleus, 275. 

 red, of the blood-corpuscle, see 



Envelope ; and Corpuscles, red, of 



blood. 



Vessels, lymphatic, see Lymphatic Vessels. 



Villi of the intestines of the cod-fish, 155. 



supposed open orifices of the lacteals 



in, 181, 189, 193, 194. 

 loops or closed ends of lacteals in, 



181. 

 ampullulae in the intestinal villi, 181, 



187, 189-91. 

 intestinal, on the structure of, 187- 



92 ; transitions in the form of, 187- 

 intestinal, in the turbot and turtle, 



189. 



intestinal, in birds, 189, 192 

 HEWSON'S preparations of, 189. 

 of the oesophagus, 188. 

 of the true skin, 193. 

 Viper, embryo, blood-corpuscles of, larger 



and rounder than those of the 



mother, 233. See Reptiles, and 



Corpuscles. 

 Viscidity of the blood increased by cold, 



50-2, see Cold ; and by faintness, 



57, see Coagulation of the Blood, 

 of the red corpuscles of the blood, 



221. See Corpuscles. 

 Viverras, size of the red corpuscles of the 



blood of, 218. See Corpuscles. 



WAGNER, Professor, states the belief on 



the Continent that the coagulation 



of the blood is produced by the 



red corpuscles, xliii. 

 on the relation of lymph-corpuscles 



to the red corpuscles of the blood, 



xlvii. 

 on the shape of the intestinal villi at 



different periods of life, 187. 

 on the blood-corpuscles of amphibia, 



219. 

 referred to on the blood-corpuscles 



of fishes, 234. 

 on the blood-discs as glandular cells, 



235. 



on the formation of the red cor- 

 puscles of the blood from the pale 



ones, 254. 

 Warmth, effects of on coagulation, 51. 



See Heat, and Coagulation. 

 Water, effect of on the red corpuscles of 



the blood, xlvi, 9, 21 5, 220-4, 274, 



288. See Corpuscles. 





