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existing increase in size under the influence of the process. 
3d. The number of the red corpuscles increases from their ap¬ 
pearance to about the fortieth hour, and appear to oscillate into an 
average of from seventy to eighty, as disclosed on the field of the 
microscope. 
4th. Physiological phenomena, such as mastication, which are 
accompanied with an increase in the rapidity and pressure of the 
blood, also manifestly increase the passage of the red corpuscles, 
and produce more or less of an effect upon the number of the 
white globules. 
5th. The influence of the nervous system upon this phenome¬ 
non remains yet to be discovered.— Academy of Medicine, Paris. 
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. 
ON THE DIGESTIVE POWER OF THE PANCREAS IN DOGS FROM 
WHICH THE SPLEEN HAS BEEN REMOVED. 
By M. Malassez. 
According to Dr. Schiff, the pancreas of dogs deprived of 
spleen is unable to digest albuminoid substances. This operation, 
first objected to by Kussana and Sehindeler, was lately taken up 
by Herzen and denied again by Ewald and by Bufaliui. 
Lately the same experiment was made by M. Malassez. The 
pancreas of a dog, without a spleen for several years, had given 
him an infusion capable of digesting the albumen of an egg 
freshly cooked, and also specially of fibrine recently prepared. 
The dog had been killed, an important fact, while in full digestion. 
Having lately had an opportunity to repeat the experiment on 
a dog from which the spleen had been removed several months be¬ 
fore, a pancreatic infusion was made in the same manner, and an 
attempt to effect the digestion of fresh fibrine was made, strictly 
in the same conditions. Everything was alike, except in one 
point. The animal, instead of being in full digestion, had been 
fasting, and the stomach consequently was empty and retracted. 
On this occasion the fibrine exposed to digestion in the infusion 
remained undissolved, and after three days remained intact. This 
fact had already been observed by Corvisart in dogs which had 
fasted, but in which the spleen had not been removed.— Gazette 
Medicate. 
