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CIRCULATING FLUIDS : 



and dyslysin) ; neither did it contain bilin nor any of tlie pro- 

 ducts of its metamorphosis. On the other hand, I found, in the 

 urine of this person, which was brown, very acid, and contained 

 a large quantity of uric acid, a very appreciable quantity of 

 biliary resin. 



We can only account for the occurrence of this product of 

 the metamorphosis of bilin in the urine, by recollecting the 

 facility and rapidity with which noxious matters are eliminated 

 from the blood. 



My analysis of the blood in icterus gave the following results : 



Analysis 44. 



Water 770-000 



Solid residue 230000 



Fibrin 1-500 



Fat 2-640 



Albumen 126-500 



Globulin 72-600 



Haematin 4-840 



Haemaphaein, with biliphaein . , . 2-640 



Extractive matters and salts, with biliphacin . 16-500 



The peculiarities of this blood are, its large amount of solid 

 constituents, due to an increase, not of the corpuscles, but of 

 the albumen, the diminished quantity of fibrin, and the excess 

 of colouring and extractive matters and salts. In other analyses 

 of the blood I have frequently found it impossible to separate 

 the hsemaph^ein from the hsematin, in consequence of the small 

 amount of the whole colouring matter ; in this instance, how- 

 ever, I was able to effect their separation, and it appears that 

 the amount of the hsemaphsein is about one half of that of the 

 hajmatin, a proportion which is probably larger than occurs in 

 healthy blood. The fat was not particularly increased. 



The researches of Denis and Lecanu give, to a certain degree, 

 similar results : they show a decrease of the blood-corpuscles, 

 but not an increase of the solid constituents. 



