A manual of general anatomy: or, a concise description of the primitive tissues and systems which compose the organs in man / By A.L.J. Bayle and H. Hollard. Translated from the French by Henry Storer.

  • Antoine Laurent Bayle
Date:
1829
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Credit: A manual of general anatomy: or, a concise description of the primitive tissues and systems which compose the organs in man / By A.L.J. Bayle and H. Hollard. Translated from the French by Henry Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 st. Of ihc Blood. The blood is a fluid contained in the heart and blood-vessels. Its quantity is estimated from 8 or lOlbs to 80 or 100. It is of a red colour, is viscous to the touch, saltish and nauseous to the taste, of a peculiar odour, of a temperature equal to that of the body, and of a specific gravity of 10.5, water being rated at 100. The microscopical researches of Hewson, Bedard, Prévost and Dumas, tend to prove that the blood, when examined in its vessels and in motion, is formed of a serous fluid, in which red particles of a lenticular form float. These particles are composed of a central globule, which is whitish, transparent, and contained in a red, though less transparent, envelope. When the blood is removed from the vital influence, it gradually loses its heat, disengages a considerable quantity of carbonic acid gas, and coagulates. It soon after separates into two parts; the one, solid, called the crassamentum, or clot, and the other fluid, called the serum. By washing the coagnlum, it is separable into two other portions : one is the colouring matter of the blood, which remains suspended in the water; the other is solid, consistent, and whitish, and
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