LYMPH. 423 



Albumen, . 4-80 



Common salt, . 0*52 



Chloride of calcium, 0-04 



Uncrystallizable sugar, 0*24 



Fatty matter, . 0-20 



Mucus, . . 0-24 



6-04 



Besides traces of sulphur, muriatic acid, and a colouring matter 

 intimately united to albumen. 



8. Another liquor of ascites. This liquor was extracted by 

 tapping for the third time the abdomen of a female fourteen days 

 before her death. It was examined by M. Marchand.* 



It was a yellow-coloured liquid, transparent, without smell, 

 and having a weak salt taste. Its constituents were, 

 Water, . 95-22 



Albumen, . 2*38 



Urea, . . -42 



Carbonate of soda, . 0*21 

 Phosphate of soda, . 0-06 

 Common salt, . 0*82 



Mucus and loss, * 0-89 



Sulphate of soda, trace. 



100-00 



9. Liquor from the vertebral column of a horse. This liquid 

 was analyzed by Lassaigne, who states its constituents to be, 



Water, . 98-180 



Osmazome, . 1 1 04 



Albumen, -LV:*< . 0-035 



Common salt, . O'GIO 



Carbonate of soda, 0-060 



Phosphate of lime, 0'009 

 Carbonate of lime, trace. 



99-998f 



These analyses are, of course, imperfect. They show a cer- 

 tain analogy between these liquids and serum of blood ; but it 



* Poggendorf s Annalen, xxxviii. 356. t Jour, de Physiologic, vii. 82. 



