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are no other disturbing influences, as the rheumatism loses its 

 acute character, the blood gradually throws off the specific cha- 

 racteristics of liyperinosis. 



The foUoAviug table exhibits the maxima, minima, and mean 

 results, as deduced from 10 analyses : 



I add the results of some of the analyses, on account of the 

 interesting remarks that Andral andGavarret have made on them. 



The blood in the first of these cases was taken from a colour- 

 mixer under the influence of lead, to which circumstance Andral 

 and Gavarret attribute the deficiency of the corpuscles. In the 

 second of these cases, the blood was taken from a person who had 

 suffered from an acute attack of rheumatism, for which he had 

 been bled six times (!), besides ha\dng had 200 leeches (!) applied; 

 a fully sufficient reason why the blood contained only 89*0 of cor- 

 puscles. Tlie blood in the third analysis was taken from a per- 

 son suffering from incipient chlorosis. In the fourth case the 

 blood was taken from a -sdgorous person, 20 years of age, which 

 accounts for the unusually large quantity of corpuscles, as well 

 as of solid constituents generally. 



j3. Erysipelas. 



I have not made any analyses of the blood in erysipelas. 

 Andral and Gavarret found that the blood, in ordinary erysi- 

 pelas attended with fever, was so rich in fibrin, and the quan- 

 tity of corpuscles so reduced, as to leave no doubt of the exist- 

 ence of liyperinosis. 



It is by no means easy to detect the peculiar properties of 

 the blood depending on this disease, for as soon as any inflam- 

 matory fever is complicated with it, the blood will, from that 

 cause alone, assume a state of liyperinosis. Moreover, the mere 



