18 ULTIMATE AND PROXIMATE FLUIDS. 



This arrangement, Dr. Rudolph! remarks, is physiological rather 

 than anatomical, and he distributes them into eight classes only: 



Cellular, Tendinous, 



Horny, Vascular, 



Cartilaginous, Muscular, and 



Osseous, Nervous. h 



The ultimate and proximate FLUIDS of the body, generated by 

 its functions, whether for its own use, or for elimination from it, 

 may perhaps be viewed as, 



Aqueous, Oleaginous, 



Mucous, Bilious, 



Albuminous, Urinous, 



Fibrinous, Seminal. 



The first fluid is that derived from external matter, the 

 chyle; then that into which this is formed, and which is dis- 

 tributed through the system, the blood ; then the various fluids 

 produced from this. 



To show the preponderance of the fluid over the solid matter 

 of the body, Blumenbach states that he possesses the entire, but 

 perfectly dry, mummy of a Guanche, or aboriginal inhabitant of 

 Teneriffe, presented to him by Sir Joseph Bankes, which, with all 

 its muscles and viscera, weighs but seven pounds and a half. * 



h Grundriss der Physiologic, 68. 



* Instit. Physiol. sect. 1. edit. 4. Getting*, 1821. 



