440 BIOLOGY. 



consists of aerated Infusoria blood -globules. These are 

 the red substance of the blood. In the lower animals 

 only, where the blood, like the body, contains but few 

 blood-globules, is it colourless. 



2649. Through the respiration an electrical difference 

 enters the blood, whereby it becomes separated into 

 several substances. 



2650. The water in the chyle is the inorganic men- 

 struum, wherein the mucus, as being a fundamental matter 

 of the vegetable sap, has been dissolved. Through 

 the digestion the mucus becomes animal gelatine. 



2651. The gelatine is the basi-constituent part of 

 the chyle, being a product of the digestion or the root- 

 process. Gelatine is the vegetable mucus repeated and 

 ennobled in an animal. This ennobling took place 

 through the digestion. 



2652. "En route" too, the chyle mixes with the 

 nervous blood, and already undergoes a degree of oxyda- 

 tion, whereby the gelatine becomes converted into 

 albuminous matter. 



2653. Through the respiration gelatine and albumen 

 are elevated to aerial importance, and still more oxydized; 

 by this means the albuminous matter becomes elevated, 

 and passes over into fibrine. The fibrine is the last 

 product of respiration. Fibrine is the starch-meal 

 in an animal. 



2654. The electric duplicity, induced in the blood by the 

 process of respiration, exists accordingly between fibrine 

 and gelatine, while the albumen constitutes or forms 

 the indifference. The fibrine is repelled from the lung, 

 because they are both homonymous ; it is the oxydized 

 gelatine. From its communicating its polarity to the 

 whole mass of blood, this also is repelled from the lungs. 



3. Functions of the Vascular System. 



2655. The capillary vessels of the body range opposite 

 to those of the lungs, just as the biliary does to the splenic 

 stomach, as alkali to acid, as precipitant and secernent 

 to what is non-separated. 



