Volume 1

The physiology of man : designed to represent the existing state of physiological science as applied to the functions of the human body / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint, Austin, 1836-1915.
Date:
1866-1874
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Credit: The physiology of man : designed to represent the existing state of physiological science as applied to the functions of the human body / by Austin Flint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    00]N'TE]NTS. INTEODTJOTIOI^. General considerations—Vital properties of organized structures—Proximate principles—Inorganic principles—Organic non-nitrogenized principles—Or- ganic nitrogenized principles, Page 13 CHAPTER I. THE BLOOD. General considerations—Transfusion—Quantity—Physical characters—Opacity— Temperature—Specific gravity—Color—Anatomical elements of the blood- Red corpuscles—Chemical characters of red corpuscles—Development of red corpuscles—Formation of red corpuscles—Leucocytes, or white corpuscles- Development of leucocytes, 95 CHAPTER II. COMPOSITION OF THE BLOOD. General considerations—Methods of quantitative analysis—Fibrin—Corpuscles— • Albumen—Inorganic constituents—Sugar—Fatty emulsion—Coloring matter of the serum—Urea and the urates—Cholesterine—Creatine—Creatinine, 127 CHAPTER III. COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD. General considerations-Characters of the clot-Characters of the serum-Coagu- lating principle in the blood—Circumstances which modify coagulation—Co- agulation of the blood in the organism—Spontaneous arrest of hemorrhage- Cause of coagulation of the blood-Summary of the properties and functions of the blood,