CONTENTS. Xlll 



PAGB 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE BLOOD. 

 BY ALEXANDER ROLLETT. 



General Characters 374 



Liquor Sanguinis ......... 374 



Red Blood Corpuscles ... .375 



Form and colour ....... 376 



Size <; ... 380 



Number 383 



Alterations in . . . . .384 



1. From exposure to air . . . . 384 



2. From mechanical agents 385 



3. From drying 387 



3. From venaesection ..... 388 



5. From electrical discharges .... 388 



6. From elevation of temperature . . . 392 



7. From exposure to cold ..... 393 



8. From exposure to water 



Saline solutions . . . . . 394 



Sugar ....... 396 



Alkalies 398 



Acids 399 



Urea ..... .402 



Neutral solutions of carmine . . . 402 



9. Gases and vapours ..... 403 

 r iews respecting the Nature of the Red Corpuscles . . . 406 

 Chemistry of the Red Corpuscles ...... 411 



)lourless Corpuscles ........ 414 



jvelopment of the Blood Corpuscles . . . . . 419 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE SALIVARY GLANDS. 

 BY E. F. W. PFLUGER. 



reneral Plan of Structure ....... 423 



Iveoli 423 



Cells of the Alveoli . - 426 



