;j.3G CIRCULATING FLUIDS: 



On a subsequent occasion I fed two horses with oats soaked 

 in water, and analysed the chyle thus formed. Both spe- 

 cimens were stirred, in order to remove the fibrin : they had 

 an alkaline reaction, but one was turbid and milky, containing 

 an extraordinary amount of soft but firm fat, while the other 

 was of a blood-red colour, and contained a considerable number 

 of blood-corpuscles. Both specimens contained lymph- and 

 chyle-corpuscles. I have endeavoured, in fig. 12, to represent 

 the corpuscles that were observed in the blood-red chyle. 



The analyses of these fluids yielded the following results : 



Water ..... 



Solid constituents 



Fibrin 



Fat 



Albumen vrith lymph- and chyle-corpuscles 



Htematoglobulin 



Extractive matters 



Alkaline lactates and muriates, ^vith traces 



of lime 7-300 6-700 



Sulphate and phosphate of lime and perox- 

 ide of iron 1-100 0-850 



These analyses yield a much larger amount of solid consti- 

 tuents than those quoted above : the increase is especially ob- 

 servable in the amount of fat in the former, and in the con- 

 joined amount of albumen and haimatoglobulin in the latter of 

 these analyses. There can be no doubt that these variations 

 are due partly to the nature of the food, and partly to the 

 manner in which chylopoiesis goes on in aged or diseased ani- 

 mals. The salts approximate closely, both in quahty and quan- 

 tity, with those that occur in the blood. 



Dr. Bees analysed the chyle of the same ass to which refer- 

 ence has been already made in page 352. It contained : 



Water 902-37 



Solid constituents 97-63 



Fibrin 370 



Fat 36-01 



Albumen ......... 35"16 



Extractive matter soluble in alcohol and water . . 3-32 



Extractive matter soluble in water only .... 12*33 



Salts (similar to those in the lymph) . . . . 7'11 



