312 



CIRCULATING FLUIDS 



868-7 



131-3 



3-5 



38-7 



89-1 



in only three cases^ the 



Water 



Solid constituents 



Fibrin 



Blood-corpuscles . 



SoUd residue of serum 



The amount of corpuscles exceeds,, 

 number 60 : and in five cases it remains below 50 : the fibrin 

 remains in five cases below 3, and in the other five cases it 

 amounts to or exceeds 3^ the maximum being 3'6. The amount 

 of the solid residue of the serum is in almost every case rather 

 above the normal standard. It follows from 4 analyses, in two 

 of which, however, the chlorosis was combined with tubercular 

 phthisis and rheumatism, that the residue of the serum contains 

 on an average 8-2 of inorganic constituents. The two cases of 

 pure chlorosis gave the inorganic constituents of the residue of 

 the serum at 8-9, while the two complicated cases gave only 

 7-6, so that it appears as if the salts were rather increased than 

 diminished in this disease. Others, however, assert that there 

 is a diminution of the salts. 



[The following table gives the mean composition of the blood 

 of six chlorotic girls, as determined by Becquerel and Rodier : 



My own obsers^ations, as well as those of Andral and Gavarret, 

 on the blood of chlorotic persons who had been taking ferru- 

 ginous medicines, are especially interesting. 



The girl from whom the blood of analysis 32 was taken, took 

 2 ounces of the tincture of iron and 64 grains of metallic iron, 

 during a period of seven weeks, commencing with the day of 

 the first venesection. 



