An experimental essay on the conversion of chyle into blood / by James Hutchinson, A.M. ; House Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

  • Hutchinson, James, active 1803.
Date:
1803
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Credit: An experimental essay on the conversion of chyle into blood / by James Hutchinson, A.M. ; House Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Although I believe this wheyifh colour of the ferum to be owing to the fluid of the tho- racic duel:, yet by it I do not mean that thick and milky appearance which we fometimes find in the blood; but I mean a faint white tinge in it not unlike to lime water, rendered flightly turbid by carbonic acid. Before this time the reader will have ob-^ ierved, that the appearance of the fluid of the thoracic duel: in venous blood, differs materi- ally from that found in arterial. The for- mer feldom being feen coagulated, or in ftreaks, but generally giving the ferum, an uniformly white tinge, as mentioned above. Here we find that a great change is made, on the fluid of the thoracic duel:, by the time it has parTed from artery to vein ; but in what manner the alteration is produced, cannot be fo eafily determined. Whether the arteries and veins effect, it feparately, or con- jointly ; or whether it is produced in the ter^ mination of arteries into veins, is yet to be