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tlie majority of cases of hemorrhage is obvious from the cir- 

 cumstance of blood-corpuscles being found in the effused fluid. 

 I cannot easily conceive how blood, deficient in fibrin, should 

 more readily escape from the vessels than blood abounding in 

 that constituent. 



In passive hemorrhages, the relations of the tissues them- 

 selves ought to be taken into account as much as the quality 

 of the blood. 



[Becquerel and Rodier analysed the blood of two girls, in 

 whom all the symptoms of chlorosis existed, (including the 

 bruit de diahle in the carotids,) and yet there was no diminution 

 of the corpuscles, or of the solid constituents generally. 



[The blood has been analysed by Mr. Busk in three well- 

 marked cases of scurvy that occurred in the Dreadnought Hos- 

 pital Ship. Its composition is represented in the following 

 table: 



