LIQUID PARTS OF ANIMALS. 



A quantity of lymph, taken from the absorbents of a young 

 ass immediately after death, was analyzed by Dr G. O. Rees. 

 He states its constituents to be, 



Water, . 965*36 



Albuminous matter, * 12*00 

 Fibrin, . 1*20 



Alcoholic extractive, > . 2-40 

 Aqueous extractive, . 13*19 

 Fatty matter, a trace. 

 Salts, <,:*>. 5-85 



1000-00 



The salts were alkaline chloride, sulphate, carbonate ; traces 

 .of a phosphate ; oxide of iron.* 



As the liquid which collects in the cavities of the body during 

 dropsy is undoubtedly of a similar nature with lymph, being the 

 liquid which the lymphatics in ordinary health absorb, though 

 probably from the increased quantity it is more diluted with wa- 

 ter, some light may perhaps be thrown upon the nature of 

 lymph by stating the constituents of the liquor of dropsy as they 

 have been determined by chemical analysis. 



1. Liquor of blisters. This liquid is transparent and colour- 

 less when the blisters are natural. When they are raised arti- 

 ficially by the application of cantharides, the liquor has a yel- 

 lowish colour, and the smell of the blistering plaster. By Mar- 



gueron's analysis, it is analogous to serum of blood, consisting 



I* 

 of, 



Water, . 78 



Albumen, . 18 



Common salt, . 2 



Carbonate of soda, 1 



Phosphate of soda, 1 



100-t 



2. Liquor of hydrocephalus internus. This liquid, which was 

 limpid and colourless, was analyzed by M. Barruel, who ob- 

 tained, 



* Phil. Mag. (3d series,) xviii. 156. f A "n. de Chim. xiv. 225. 



