and Experiments on Pus . 303 
half a pint of distilled water, produced a milky fluid, with a 
number of small curdy particles suspended, but very few leafy, 
or fibrous pieces or clots. 
(t>) The serous pus being treated as just mentioned ( a ), the 
same appearances ensued. 
(c) The curdy pus being agitated in the same manner in 
water, a number of clots, leafy, and fibrous masses, were seen 
suspended among fine small curdy particles in a pearly liquid. 
(d) The viscid pus being treated as just said, it required 
long continued, and violent agitation, to diffuse it through the 
water, and then the appearances were as last described. 
3. Pus of any kind, after boiling in twenty times its quan- 
tity of water, was quite as globular under the microscope as 
previously. With a smaller proportion of water, the mixture 
became very turbid, sometimes clots were formed in a pearl 
liquid, in which a fine sediment took place, which appeared 
much more globular than the clots or curdy masses. 
4. In genera], water in which pus has been agitated, remains 
somewhat milky, with an abundant close white sediment ; but 
after two, or three, or more ablutions, the water becomes clear 
on standing, and the sediment more curdy. 
Sect. IV. Agency of Alcohol of Wine. 
The different kinds of exsiccated pus exposed to the agency 
of this menstruum, and treated as described in a former paper, 
Phil. Trans. 1803, P. II. p. 323, the results were similar, 
except in the proportion of products. 
1. These exsiccated substances afforded to this menstruum 
a smaller proportion of potash, but as much animal oxide and 
muriate of soda, as mucous sputum. 
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