Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker.

  • Stoker, William.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    portant preparation in the highly rich and dense venous blood which passes through these organs, and essentially necessary to fit it for the elabora- tion of arterial blood in the lungs, and for the vi- tal purposes of the greater circulation. The complex but admirably contrived appara- tus in the liver, and the course of the venous blood through it and other parenchymatuos viscera of the abdomen, extended and retarded as it is with such obvious design, would seem well cal- culated, not only to provide for its necessary fluidity by a more intimate union of i:he hydro- carbonous principles with which it is so fully charged, but also to impart renewed animalisa- tion, farther fitting it to supply the waste of the solid parts of the body, and of vital power, which is incessantly going on during life. Experiments which I instituted more than twenty years ago, with a view to ascertain what was the difference between the state of the blood in the vena portae, and of that as it enters the vena cava ascendens from the liver, though rude and in- complete, yet appeared to me to be at least decisive that in health, blood is of lighter colour after than before its passage through the liver; and further, that on immersing blood of these different deno- minations in separate vessels of water at a high temperature, there was a remarkable portion of solid animal matter elevated to the surface of the water in which the blood of the vena cava was