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.
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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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    their termination in veins, where we fuppofc that a portion of carbon and hydrogen, is abftradted from the coagulable part of the fluid of the thoracic duel:, by the oxygen which it received in the lungs ; carbonic acid, and water are formed, which go to the venous blood, and are afterwards evolved by it. Of the Formation of the Red Globules. Hewfon and Falconar thought they had proved, that the red globules of the blood were formed by the fpleen, and lymphatic glands; but as the opinions of thefe gentlemen are now in a great meafure neglected, it is hardly neceffary to take up any time to refute them. We fometime ago obferved, that the fluid of the thoracic duel; contained globules of a white colour, fmaller than thofe of the blood. Now, for the fame reafon that we believed the fibrina of the blood to be formed from the coagulable part of the fluid of the thoracic duel, we believe the red globules of the former, to be formed from the white globules of the latter.