ANALYSES OF THE BLOOD OF A HORSE. 
153 
They are not to marry until they have obtained permission 
so to do, in writing, from the Secretary-at-War, nor without 
conforming to the regulations prescribed in the circular of 
the 17th of December, 1843. 
Art. 35. All regulations contrary to the present ones are and 
remain abrogated. 
The Secretary-at-War, 
(Signed) A. De Saint-Arnaud. 
Paris ; 12 th June , 1853. 
[Recueil de Med. Vet. de Juin , 1852.) 
ANALYSES OF THE BLOOD OF A HORSE IN WHOM THE 
PNEUMO-GASTRICS HAD BEEN DIVIDED. 
By M. E. Clement, Chef-de-Service of Chemistry at Alfort. 
Experiments and analyses made with a view of throwing 
light upon the double function of respiration and nutrition, 
led M. Clement to the following conclusions: — 
1 . That, in the act of normal respiration, the blood is com- 
busted in the formation of water and fibrine at the cost of 
the albumen ; which, consequently, diminishes in quantity in 
the arterial blood, while an increase at the same time takes 
place in the proportions of the two former ingredients. 
2. That in the case of an act of respiration so imperfect as 
that which ensues on the section of the pneumo-gastric 
nerves, combustion becomes extinguished in the lung, and 
the blood no longer undergoes any other than a mechanical 
influence on the part of the air. 
3. That, during this inertia of the pulmonary organ, 
albumen no longer attracting the oxygen of the air, there is 
no more water or fibrine produced. 
4. That, as a consequence of this defective combustion, 
the lung no longer performs the functions of exhalatory 
apparatus, the water being lost in the mass of blood, while 
the albumen becomes sensibly augmented. 
5. That, while the fibrine diminishes after the section of 
pneumo-gastrics, the vital or assimilative force is still active 
in the organism notwithstanding the progressive loss of 
vitality in the lung. 
6. That, on the contrary, when it augments, it becomes 
the source of the life of the organism in general, and of the 
lung in particular, and these are exhausted together. 
xxvi. 21 
