Leucocythemia : an essay, to which was awarded the Bolyston medical prize of Harvard university for 1863 / by Howard Franklin Damon.

  • Howard Franklin Damon
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1864
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    were greatly-illustrated by the exhibition of a scries of preparations-token from turtles and divers fishes, wherein these vessels were injected, and shown to the naked eye in their rise, progress, communications, and insertions, to the great satisfaction of the society. Thanks were returned to Dr. Hunter and Mr. Hewson for these very ingenious communications. ■ At a meeting of the Royal Society on the 22d of November, .1770, Sir Godfrey Copley's gold medal was awarded by ballot to Hewson for his papers on the lymphatic system in birds, amphibious animals, and fishes. His three papers on the properties of the blood were published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1770; and that on the Figure and Composition of the Eed Particles of the Blood, commonly called the Red Globules, in 1773. This paper was fol- lowed by another, upon the Red Particles of the Blood, the Lymphatic Glands, the Thymus, and the Spleen. To these papers we are indebted for many .of our most valuable ideas upon the blood and the blood-making organs. Before the time of Hewson, the attention of obser- vers was mainly directed to the coagulation of the blood. Many different opinions were held by the
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