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CIRCULATING FLUIDS 



dog; the blood of swine, oxen, and Merino sheep, contains 

 from 80-0 to 860, and the maximum occurs in the blood of 

 the EngHsh sheep. 



The investigations of these chemists relating to the blood of 

 domestic animals in a morbid state, were principally confined 

 to sheep suffering from watery cachexia. ^ We extract the fol- 

 loAving analyses from their essay, as illustrative of the changes 

 that the blood undergoes in pure hydrsemia without any 

 complication. 



The sheep, whose blood formed the subject of the last ana- 

 lyses, died shortly after the 4th venesection. 



In those cases in which the hydrsemia was associated with 

 inflammatory affections, the blood presented very different cha- 

 racters, as the following analyses will show : 



A 5-year old sheep : 1st Venesection 



2d 

 A 4 -year old sheep : 1st 



2d 



3d 

 A 4-year old sheep: 1st 



2d 



The first of these animals had, in addition to the hydrsemia, 

 pneumonia and pulmonary abscess ; the second, acute hepatitis 

 and peritonitis; and the third, acute bronchitis. 



The following analyses of the blood of sheej), with various 

 disorders, were made by the same chemists : 



Commonly known as the rot. 



