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CIRCULATING FLUIDS 



composition of the blood of tlie 3 men is given in the following 

 table : 



Here we see that the fibrin and albumen remain nearly nor- 

 mal, while the corpuscles, instead of diminishing, are slightly 

 above the average (their numbers being 146, 142, and 138.) 

 The fatty matters and salts offered no peculiarity. 



They give the following particulars regarding the blood of 

 the two female patients. 



The corpuscles were augmented (135-5) in the first case; 

 normal (125*5) in the second: fibrin normal (1"9) in the first; 

 doubled (3"6) in the second : albumen normal (73 and 70) in 

 both. The serum was turbid in both cases. In the case in 

 which the corpuscles were 125, the clot was firm and resisting, 

 in the other it was soft and diffluent.] 



In the following exanthemata, Avhich, with true erysipelas, 

 constitute Schonlein's family of Enjsipelacea, we find that the 

 composition of the blood is very similar to what it is in con- 

 tinued fever; the characters of hypinosis are much less marked 

 than in the typhoid form. Some analyses give negative results, 

 while in others the tendency of the constitution of the blood is 

 more towards hj^Dcrinosis than hypinosis. 



The maximum of fibrin amounts to only 4*4, against which 

 there is a minimum of 1*1. In the majority of cases it does 

 not differ much from Lecanu^s normal average 3. 



The blood-corpuscles are increased in a less degree in variola 

 and varioloid, than in scarlatina and rubeola. 



Variola et niorb. varioloid. 



The blood was analysed by Andral and Gavarret in 5 cases of 

 true variola and 2 of varioloid disease. 



In all the cases of variola the eruption was confluent. The 



