Experiments on the blood : with some remarks on its morbid appearances / by William Hewson.

  • Hewson, William, 1739-1774
Date:
1771
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Credit: Experiments on the blood : with some remarks on its morbid appearances / by William Hewson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Experiments on the Blood, with fome Re¬ marks on its Morbid appearances. Read June 14& 21, 1770. A S the following Experiments are made on a fubje<5t generally thought important, and as the inferences which I have ventured to draw from them feem to explain fome appearances in difeafes, they will not, 1 flatter my felf, be thought altogether unworthy the attention of this learned Society. When frefh blood is received into a bafon, and fuffered to reft, in a few minutes it jellies, or coa¬ gulates, and foon after feparates into two parts, dif- tinguiftied by the names of crajfamentum and ferum« Thefe two parts differ in their proportions in dif¬ ferent conftitutions: in a ftrong perfon, the crap- famentum is in greater proportion to the ferum than in a weak one > and the fame difference is found to take place in difeafes; thence is deduced the gene¬ ral conclufion, that the lefs the quantity of Jerum is in proportion to the craffamentumy bleeding, diluting liquors, and a low diet, are the more neceffary; whilft in fome dropfies and other difeafes where the A z