3. Miscellaneous Observations on the Blood

Extract

These observations are given in six sections.

In the first, “On the Action of Water on the Bed Corpuscles of the Blood” the results are stated of trials of different proportions of water on these corpuscles; from which it would appear, that two of water to one of cruor of the blood of the common fowl, sufficed to change the form of the corpuscles, and to render them globular. Other changes are described, which were witnessed when water in great excess was used,—changes referred by the author to endosmosis and exosmosis, and rupture of the corpuscles, and the exclusion of their nuclei.