268 CIRCULATING FLUIDS: 



The blood-corpuscles and the albumen are considerably dimi- 

 nished Avhile the fibrin is increased.] 



III. INFLAMMATION OF THE CHYLOPOIETIC VISCERA. 



a. Angina tonsillaris [amygdalitis). 

 Andral and GaA^arret analysed the blood of four persons suf- 

 fering from angina vera, and they always found, in a greater or 

 less degree, the distinctive characters of hyperinosis. They ob- 

 tained the following results. 



With the exception of the 4th case, which was one of chronic 

 angina, and in which the blood presents no striking deviations 

 from the healthy standard, and of the 2d case, in which the 

 blood is extremely rich in solid constituents, the remainder ex- 

 hibit a decided decrease in the quantity of the corpusclesi, and 

 a less marked increase of fiction. 



|3. Hepatitis and lienitis. 



Accm-ate quantitative analyses of the blood in these inflam- 

 matory diseases are still wanted. It has been frequently observed 

 that the proportion of fat is considerably increased in the blood 

 during hepatitis, and Trail has found the serum milky on several 

 occasions ; Nasse^ has occasionally seen it so highly colotu-ed 

 with biliphsein as immediately to tinge paper on being dipped 

 in it ; and Lauer^ has observed that a yellow-coloured sedi- 

 ment is deposited by the serum upon the buffy coat, dui-ing this 

 disease. 



• In the blood obtained by the second venesection in Case 3, they fall even below 

 the solid residue of the serum. Andral and Gavarret, however, attribute the low 

 amount of corpuscles in this instance to the circumstance of the patient having been 

 for some time under the poisonous influence of lead. 



2 Das Blut, etc., p. 78. 



' Quaidam de Sanguinis different, in Morbis, p. 34. 



