A practical manual : containing a description of the general, chemical and microscopical characters of the blood, and secretions of the human body, as well as of their components, including both their healthy and diseased states ... / by John William Griffith.

  • Griffith, J. W. (John William)
Date:
1846
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Credit: A practical manual : containing a description of the general, chemical and microscopical characters of the blood, and secretions of the human body, as well as of their components, including both their healthy and diseased states ... / by John William Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iv of all who are interested in the subject. Or- ganic or ultimate analysis is not treated of, although it is frequently indispensable in the investigation of the nature of animal matters. This was expressly avoided, since distinct trea- tises have been pubHshed on it; and it is more- over usually considered to require too much time and too minute a knowledge of chemical manipulation to come within the grasp of the medical practitioner. An Appendix is added, into which any dis- coveries or new processes of importance that have appeared since the pubhcation of the first Part, and which come within the limits of the Manual, are abstracted. It would be mere waste of time to attempt to detail the advantages to be derived from a more extended examination of the properties of the components of the human body in its normal state of health, and in its deviations from this condition. The important light which has been thrown upon several points in physiology and pathology by the researches of modern che- mistry and microscopy are so striking, that to be alone acquainted with them is sufficient to ensure a due appreciation of their importance.