LYMPH. 351 



less corpuscles, apparently smaller than human blood-corpus- 

 cles, and far less numerous in it than the blood-corpuscles are 

 in the blood. (Milller.) In addition to albumen, the serum of 

 the lymph contains extractive matters and salts : the latter are 

 the same as the salts of the blood. 



Gmelin found in 1000 parts of human lymph : 



\\'ater 9610 



Solid constituents 39"0 



Fibrin 2-5 



Albumen 27"5 



Chloride of sodium, phosphates of potash and soda, 



and salivary matter ..... 2-1 



Extractive matters and lactate of soda . . . 6'9 



Marchand and Colberg have anah'sed lymph obtained from 



a wound on the dorsum of a man's foot. They found in it : 



Water 969-26 



Solid constituents 30"74 



Fibrin 5-20 



Albumen 4*34 



Extractive matter 3*12 



Fluid and crystalline fat 2*64 



Chlorides of sodium and potassium, alkaline sulphates 

 and carbonates, sulphate and phosphate of lime, 



and peroxide of iron . . . . . 15'44 



The amount of fibrin has doubtless been overrated in both 

 these analyses, since the coagulum contains lymph-corpuscles, and 

 some albumen, in addition to that constituent. In Marchand's 

 analysis it amounts to double the quantity in healthy blood. 

 The quantity of albumen is also incorrectly stated, for a fluid 

 containing -435 of albumen does not perfectly coagulate on 

 heating, as this fluid is reported to have done, but merely be- 

 comes tui'bid, and deposits a few flocculi. The salts in 

 Marchand's analysis amount to more than double the amount 

 in the blood. 



[L'Heretier (Traite de Chimie Pathologique, p. 18,) analysed 

 the lymph obtained fi'om the thoracic duct of a man vrho died 

 fi'om softening of the brain, and who took nothing but a little 

 water for 30 hours preceding his death. It contained in 1000 

 parts : 



