254 CIRCULATING FLUIDS : 



Becqnerel and Rodier found a considerable diminution of the 

 blood-corpuscles (92'6^) and an augmentation of the fibrin (•1'2.) 

 The cholesterin was in excess^ ('223^) and the phosphates were 

 abundant.] 



j3. Carditis. 



Lecanui analysed the blood of three men and five women, 

 who were suffering from angiocarditis and endocarditis. Un- 

 fortunately he has made no observations on the physical cha- 

 racters of the blood, and the quantity of fibrin was also not ascer- 

 tained. The analysis seems to have consisted simply in the 

 separation of the clot from the serum, and then ascertaining 

 the solid residue of each. 



The blood of men gave the foUoAving results : 



Water. Solid residue. Residue of serum. Blood-corpuscles. 



1 821-02 178-98 77-59 101-39 



2 880-48 119-52 77-62 41-90 



3 807-27 192-73 96-35 96-38 



The blood of women gave : 



4 873-45 126-55 86-10 40-45 



5 868-62 131-38 79-89 51-49 



6 866-61 133-39 89-69 4370 



7 877-51 122-49 77-00 45-49 



8 845-14 154-86 85-80 ^906 

 Healthy blood 790-00 210-00 80-00 130-00 



It is much to be regretted that the fibrin was not deter- 

 mined in these researches, as the proportions of the solid re- 

 sidue, and especially of the corpuscles, indicate a high degree 

 of hyperinosis. 



Blood taken by repeated venesections from the same patient 

 during carditis, differs in the following respect fii'om blood simi- 

 larly taken in cases of bronchitis, pneumonia, peritonitis, rheu- 

 matism, &c. ; in these latter it becomes gradually poorer in 

 sohd constituents, and especially in coi'puscles, while in the 

 former, at least if we may judge from two analyses of Lecanu, 

 the reverse takes place. 



The man whose blood formed the object of the second analysis, 

 on venesection being repeated 12 horn's afterwards, yielded 

 blood which left a solid residue of 139*1, and the woman from 



' Etudes cliimiques, etc., p. 110. 



