348 CIRCULATING FLUIDS: 



The individual salts did not differ in any remarkable degree 

 from the normal standard. 



We have already had occasion to refer to the labours of 

 Enderlin, in connexion with the chemistry of the blood. He 

 has recently published the following analyses of the ash of the 

 blood of various animals, which are confirmatory of the views 

 to which we have more than once alluded, respecting the non- 

 existence of lactates in the blood. 



The analyses are calculated for 100 parts of ash : 



Salts soluble in water : 



Ox. Calf. Sheep. Hare.' 



Tribasicphosphateof soda (SNaO.POs) 16-769 30-180 13-296 28-655 



Chloride of sodium .... 59-3401 ,^ ,,„ „„ , „„ , 



nil -1 f , - rionr^2'650 66-570 50324 



Chloride of potassium . . . 6-120 J 



Sulphate of soda . . . . 3-855 2-936 5-385 3-721 



Salts insoluble in water : 



Phosphates of lime and magnesia , 4-190 3-490 "I 



Peroxide of iron and phosphate of ditto 8-277 9*277/ \ 16-509 



Sulphate of lime, and loss . . . 1-449 0'829 



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The alkaline carbonates in Nasse's analyses are easily ac- 

 counted for by Enderlin's explanation of the action of the 

 atmosphere on the tribasic phosphate of soda.] 



I have analysed the blood of the carp and of the tench. In 

 both fishes it was tolerably clear, contained oil-globules visible 

 to the naked eye, formed a loose gelatinous clot, from which 

 scarcely any serum separated, and yielded, on whipping, a viscid 

 sort of fibrin, possessed of little tenacity, and which, on the ad- 

 dition of water, separated into minute flocculi, consisting (ac- 

 cording to microscopic investigation) of granular masses and of 

 minute vesicles far smaller than the nuclei of the blood-cor- 

 puscles. The blood coagulated imperfectly on boiling, and was 

 remarkable for its small amount of hsematoglobulin. The blood 

 of bufo variabilis presented exactly similar phenomena ; but on 

 a chemical examination it was found to be richer in solid con- 

 stituents, especially in albumen, than the blood of fishes. It 

 was impossible to form a quantitative determination of the fibrin 

 or of the colouring matter in the blood of these animals, in 



' la another analysis he found bibasic phosphate of soda. 



