This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE STRUCTUEE AND USES OF OUR BLOOD. Blood the river of life--Erroneous notions about medicines "purifying" the blood--How it circulates--Capillary vessels--The substances it carries: iron and soap--The blood-discs: their discovery by Malpighi and Leeuwenhoek--Howson's researches--Size of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE STRUCTUEE AND USES OF OUR BLOOD. Blood the river of life--Erroneous notions about medicines "purifying" the blood--How it circulates--Capillary vessels--The substances it carries: iron and soap--The blood-discs: their discovery by Malpighi and Leeuwenhoek--Howson's researches--Size of the discs in various animals--The nucleus--The colourless corpuscles: analogy between them and the Amoebae--What is an Amoeba 1--The parasite which lives in our blood--Development of blood-cells--Is the blood alive?--Coagulation and its cause--Chemical composition of the blood--Variations of, in different people--Differences between arterial and venous blood--The gases they contain--Cause of the change of colour--The marvel of the circulation--Quantity of our blood--Bloodletting--Transfusion: history of the attempts; when it may be successfully employed--Blood does not form the organs -Vivifying elements of blood: arterial nourishes, and venous excites the tissues --Oxygen as a condition of nutrition--How does the blood nourish? --Each organ determining the nutrition of the rest--Relation between circulation and assimilation. Blood is a mighty river of life. It is the mysterious centre of chemical and vital actions as wonderful as they are indispensable, soliciting our attention no less by the many problems offered to speculative ingenuity, than by the important practical conclusions to which our ideas respecting the Blood necessarily lead . By some the Blood is regarded as the source of all diseases, and to "purify the Blood" is the object of their treatment. Many quacks seize on this notion, and in sublime ignorance of the nature of the Blood they profess to purify, and of the means by which their drugs could possibly purify it, make...
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