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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    than tranfparent ferum, and had oil oozing from it. That it putrified, and then jellied. As moft of the patients from whom it was obtained, had bad appetites, and were fubject to vomiting, he concludes that the white co- lour was not owing to chyle; and, from the ferum being fo inflammable when infphTated, and oil being fccn oozing from it, he believes, it to be owing to fat abforbed, and conveyed into the blood-veffels. I will now relate the cafe of a woman, from whom I obtained fomeof this ferum, and then a few experiments which were made on it. A. B. a mulatto, aged forty-five, or there- abouts, had complained of a head ache, and pain in her bowels, for about two weeks. She had had no menftrual difcharge for three months. Her pulfe was flow, though tenfe. Her appetite was good, and fhe had a ftool every day. She confulted a Phyfician who advifed her to be bled, and accordingly twelve