BLOOD. 



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Audral and Gavarret's analyses gave tlie following results. 



Lauei'i states that he has found the serum tui^bid in pleuritis. 



Caventou2 analysed the blood in a case of chronic pleuritis, 

 accompanied with vertigo. It was turbid, of a diity-red colour, 

 and covered with a soft light-coloured buffy coat. The clot was 

 moderately large, and floated in a yellowish-white, milky serum, 

 which was perfectly neutral, devoid of smell or taste, coagu- 

 lable by heat, but not by acids or alcohol, and scarcely at all by 

 corrosive sublimate. 



[Becquerel and Rodier have analysed the blood of five men 

 attacked with uncomplicated and acute pleuritis. The mean 

 composition of the blood is given in the following table. 



' Qusedam de Sanguine dift"., etc. * Annal. de Chim. et de Phys. vol. 39, p. 288. 



