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But it may be said it is by intelligence we shall conquer. Is 

 it so in the world ? Was it not brute force that settled the 

 dispute between two of the most civilised nations of Europe 

 just now ? No ! It is not thus that woman must conquer. 

 She must not, she will not forsake her place in nature and 

 in society. She will continue to conquer by affection and 

 sympathy, as she has been wont to do, and continue to call to 

 her aid those small but powerful armies of hers that prattle 

 about one's knees and charm away more than half the ills of 

 life. The albumen of the blood amounts to about 60 or 70 

 parts in 1,000. If there be a much smaller proportion than 

 this, dropsy results. Albumen is insoluble, unless an alkali 

 be present ; hence the alkaline condition of the blood is essen- 

 tial. The apparent facility with which albumen can be con- 

 verted in the living body from the colloidal into the crystal- 

 loidal state, and vice versa, seems to fit that substance in a 

 peculiar manner, for the part it plays in the animal economy. 

 The amount of fibrin which can be obtained from health}' 

 blood amounts to between two and three parts in a thousand; 

 but, in the course of certain diseases, it may rise to five or six 

 times this quantity. Fibrin, among other good offices, repairs 

 injuries, fills up breaches of substance, stops haemmorrhage 

 from divided blood vessels, confines and limits the extension 

 of collections of matter, and prevents the haemmorrhage which 

 would otherwise take place on the separation of gangrenous 

 parts. The development and maintenance of the blood, more 

 particularly with reference to its corpuscles, was next treated 

 of, and the spleen, thyroid gland, thymus gland, supra-renal 

 capsules, and lymphatic glands, were said to be sources from 

 which the corpuscles are derived after the individual has 

 attained a certain stage in development, the original corpuscles 

 being, on the other hand, simply a portion of the primitive 

 cells of the embryo. It was also stated that in health the 

 blood is maintained at a uniform standard of composition by 

 the action of the tissues generally, as well as by that of the 



