098 ANALYSIS OF THE BLOOD OF A HORSE. 
rhythm of physical movement and chymico-vital action of 
respiration, he always found less water and more albumen, in 
blood drawn from six to twenty-four hours after such section 
than in that which had been taken from the vein prior to 
the operation. 
The deductions drawn from these facts are: 
1. In regard to normal respiration, a. The addition of 
water to arterial blood, b. The diminution of albumen in 
the same blood, c. Augmentation of fibrine. 
2. In regard to respiration rendered abnormal through 
division of the pneumogastric nerves, a . Diminution of 
water after division, b. Augmentation of albumen, c. Va¬ 
riations in the proportions of fibrine and colouring matter, or 
rather of colouring particles. 
These phenomena result, in the opinion of M. Clement, in 
defective pulmonary congestion. After division of the pneumo- 
gastrics, the lung quickly loses its vitality, and no longer, up 
to complete death of it, is more than an inert organ, reduced 
to the simple office of being a medium of exhalation. It no 
longer burns the albumen of the venous blood, no longer 
produces water, though it still admits of the exhalation of a 
certain quantity of the fluid, the same as a pump would do 
through which a stream was running. This theory, however, 
does not explain the reason of the augmentation of fibrine 
and of the colouring particles in certain cases of divided 
nerves, and the diminution of the same organic elements in 
others. The sole explanation, in M. Clement’s mind, for 
this is, that after division of the nerves, the life of the lung 
naturally becomes extinct; though not so with the other 
organs of the economy, notwithstanding their functions are 
subordinate to that of the lung. 
M. Clement’s experiments, which had been confined to 
four or five subjects, were now tested by one performed by 
M. Bouley. Blood was drawn from a horse in vigorous con¬ 
dition, immediately prior to his nerves being divided, and 
again, six hours afterwards, and both parcels of blood were 
subjected to a rigorous analysis, under precisely the same 
conditions, and the results were as under— 
Condition of the Blood before the Nerves icere divided: 
Water 
Fixed matters in the Serum 
Fibrine 
Colouring particles 
803,344 
# 53,743 
3,371 
139,542 
1000,000 
