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tlie highest amount ever found by Andral and Gavarrct. In 

 the second case, the patient was at the same time suffering from 

 chlorosis, which accounts for the small number of corpuscles. 



The second table does not give very clear results, on account 

 of the inflammatory complications. 



In the first of these cases the fever was complicated with a 

 rather severe attack of angina. In the third analysis in this 

 case, the blood contained a large quantity of fibrin due to a re- 

 newal of the inflammatory symptoms in a rather violent form. 

 Slight erysipelas of the face was present in the second case; in 

 the third there was swelling and redness of the tonsils ; in the 

 fourth the fever was complicated with acute bronchitis; in the 

 fifth the blood was taken from a woman three months after 

 delivery : at the period of the second venesection, some slight 

 symptoms of meningitis had appeared. 



Jennings! i^^s analysed the blood of a girl aged 14 years, 

 suff'ering from continued fever. He found it composed of: 



[Becquerel and Rodier have analysed the blood of 3 men and 

 2 women suflFering from ordinary continued fever. The mean 



' Coiu-sc of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Blood, by II. Ancell. 

 The Lancet, 1840, p. 339. 



