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The hematoblasts, then, play an active and important part in 
the mechanism of the stoppage of the blood. These elements are 
so easily altered that as they come in contact with the edges of 
the wound they become adherent, as they do when meeting a 
foreign body. Gathering round the open orifice of the vessel, 
they form an obstacle at first insufficient; then the hematoblasts 
first arrested, in their turn detain the new ones brought in contact 
by the movement of the circulation, the orifice diminishing more 
and more; a solid and well fixed cork finally closing it entirely. 
The other elements of the blood and the formation of the 
fibrine participate in this process only in an accessory and second¬ 
ary manner. 
The blood then contains within itself a powerful hemostatic 
capability, or, to make our meaning more intelligible, we would 
say that if it were possible to remove from the normal blood all 
the hematoblasts the wound of a vessel would produce a hemor¬ 
rhage which would have no tendency whatever to stop spontane¬ 
ously .—Academie des Sciences , Comptes Rendus . 
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 
ACTION OF OXYGENATED WATER UPON ORGANIC MATTERS AND 
FERMENTATIONS. 
By M. P. Bort and P. Regnard. 
Conclusions .—1st. Oxygenated water, very weak, stops fer¬ 
mentations due to the development of living beings, and putre¬ 
faction of all substances which do not decompose it. 
2d. It has no action upon diastasic ferments. 
3d. Weak oxygenated water is not destroyed by fats, amy¬ 
laceous substances, soluble ferments, albumen of egg, caseine, 
peptones, creatine, creatinine, or urea. 
4th. It is rapidly destroyed by nitrogenous collageneous mat¬ 
ters, musculine, fibrine of the blood, and several vegetable nitro¬ 
genous elements. 
5th. This action is definitely arrested by a temperature of 79 
degrees. Putrefaction leaves it perfectly intact .—Gazette Med - 
icale . 
