Lectures on the blood and on the changes which it undergoes during disease : delivered at the College of France in 1837-8 / by F. Magendie.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855.
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1839
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Credit: Lectures on the blood and on the changes which it undergoes during disease : delivered at the College of France in 1837-8 / by F. Magendie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE V. Effects of carbonic acid on the blood of man and animals.—Modifications of the blood induced by temperature.—Experiments of Hales.— Illustrations.—Experiments of the lecturer.—Treatment of cholera.—Effects of injecting cold water into the veins.— Changes in the blood during chlorosis.—Obstacles to the study of the pathology of the blood *• 41 LECTURE VI. Effects of the injection of cold water into the veins.—Description of the haemodynamo- meter.—Pressure of the blood equable throughout the system.—The arterial pres- sure nearly the same in different animals.—Causes of variation of pressure.--Action of different substances on the heart.—Exciting effects of coffee.—M. Poiseuille's theory.—Laws respecting the circulation.—Depressing action of digitalis.—The blood does not possess any innate motile force 54 LECTURE VII. Effects of pressure on the parietes of the blood-vessels.—Considerations on transfusion. —Action of pain in increasing the pressure.— Effects of galvanism.—Nature of the buffy coat of the blood.—Differences between the fluid in and out of the body.—The fibrin of the blood different from that of muscle.—Effects of bloodletting . 66 LECTURE VIII. Effects of increasing arterial and venous pressure.—Death produced by injection of venous blood.—Differences between the serum and liquor sanguinis.—Proportions of serum and clot in different affections.—Effects of bloodletting in increasing the quantity of serum.—Theories of inflammation.—Examination of blood drawn from patients at the Hotel Dieu 81 LECTURE IX. Theories of bloodletting.—Compression of arteries and its effects.—Capillary vessels. —Discoveries of M. Poiseuille.—Circulation of blood in the capillary vessels. Pressure of the fluid in veins.—Effects of variation in the quantity of the serum. Theories of inflammation.—Increase of the cephalo-rachidian fluid.—Modes of exam- ining the blood.—Proportions of serum and of clot 95 LECTURE X. Causes of movement of the blood in the veins.—Differences between the arterial and venous circulations.—Effects of ligature of arteries on the circulation in the brain.— Progressive force of the blood in the deep and superficial veins.—Examination of the blood in a syphilitic patient.—State of the fluid in Bright's disease.—Effects of the injection of serum ......... 1,,