An experimental essay on the conversion of chyle into blood / by James Hutchinson, A.M. ; House Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

  • Hutchinson, James, active 1803.
Date:
1803
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Credit: An experimental essay on the conversion of chyle into blood / by James Hutchinson, A.M. ; House Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2« appearances of blood, when in that ftate. It was examined an hour afterwards, when it had feparated into ferum and crafTamentum; feverat white ftreaks were feen in the former, and a firm white coagulum on top of the latter. In two hoars it was examined again, and I thought the number of white ftreaks had increafed. b. A dog, that was kept fading for twenty four hours, had eight ounces of blood taken from his aorta; it was examined, when coa- gulating, and feveral times afterwards, but no- thing uncommon was obferved. c. A dog was fed at eleven, A. M. and had an artery in his fore leg opened at three, P. M. Eight ounces of blood were received from it into a bafon. I examined it, when coagulating, and nothing unnatural was feen. In the courfe of two hours, it was examined ao-ain, and a white coagulum was obferved at the edge of the craifamentum. The ferum had a flight wheyifti coloiy. B 3