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CIRCULATING FLUIDS : 



Mean composition of the blood of phthisical women 



Febris puerperalis. 



[The blood in this disease has been analysed by Heller : it 

 was of a very dark brown colour^ but coagulated in the ordi- 

 nary manner : the serum was turbid^ but after standing for 

 some time became clear ; its reaction was alkaline, its specific 

 gravity 1025, and it contained no biliphaein. The clot was 

 dark, of a loose consistence, and covered with a strong buffy 

 coat, over which there was a delicate membrane, that presented 

 under the microscope a finely granular appearance, and fat- 

 vesicles. 



In 1 000 parts of blood there were contained : 

 Water 833-85 



Solid constituents 



Fibrin .... 



Blood-corpuscles . 



Albumen and extractive matters 



Fixed salts .... 



166-15 



5-16 



77-52 



77-47 



6-00 



The blood has been partially analysed in two cases of this 

 disease by Becquerel and Rodier, 



In the first case the blood, taken at the first venesection, 

 yielded fibrin (4<-3), albumen (55-6), and blood-corpuscles (77"3) : 

 at the second venesection, the fibrin was (4-2,) the albumen 

 (54), and the blood-corpuscles (66-6). The cholesterin and the 

 phosphates exceeded the normal amount. 



In the second case, the fibrin was normal, the albumen 

 (43), and the blood-corpuscles (70).] 



£. Eclampsia. Convulsions. 



[The blood of a girl, aged 20 years, who frequently had 40 

 or 50 attacks in the course of 24 hours, was subjected to several 

 analyses by Heller. 



