Leukosin : a new substance found in the blood of leukamia : also a description of another crystalline body found in the vomitus / by James C. White.

  • White, James C. (James Clarke), 1833-1916.
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[1859?]
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Credit: Leukosin : a new substance found in the blood of leukamia : also a description of another crystalline body found in the vomitus / by James C. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G Tobacco Smoke hi HydropJiobia. substance remains unchanged. Further analysis, as conducted by Dr. Bacon, showed that this matter was lime, but in what form it is impossible to ascertain. They may be crystals of some un- known salt of lime, into which the coloring matter of the blood has been taken up, just as frequently results when crystallization occurs in colored solutions of various sorts; or it may be the sole chemical compound of the base, a minute quantity only being suf- ficient to determine their formation, so little, in fact, that their shape and structure remain unchanged when it is driven off. In so complex a mixture as is present in that laboratory, the stomach, it is difficult to say what compounds may not be formed, and especially so in a pathological case like the following. Here, in addition to the secretions from the healthy portions of the cavi- ty, were mingled the purulent discharges from the ulcerating sur- faces, large quantities of blood poured out from corroded vessels, food, medicine, and masses of penicilium and torula, and the spores of sarcina ventriculi, disposing the whole to fermentation. The food consisted exclusively of milk, and the only drug given was nitrate of bismuth. But the crystals separating from this maze of matter are nothing we might expect to result from its decomposition. They are neither lactate, butyrate, oxalate, car- bonate, nor a fatty salt of lime, nor do they at all correspond to the re-actions of hasmatine. The vomitus itself had that pungent acid character so often present in this disease. The only other instance on record of crystals occurring in the fluid of the stomach, is one described by Neale in the Medical Times, in which case uric acid [?] was found. In some vomitus which I examined not long since, oxalate of lime in its usual octahedral form was present, and must have been formed in the stomach, for no food containing it could have been eaten for a long time pre- viously. Crystals of hasmatoidyi have been observed by Rokitan- sky in cases of so-called infar#t, or apoplectic deposits in the walls of the stomach, but their occurrence in its cavity, or the presence of crystals tinged by the coloring matter of the blood, is something hitherto unobserved. February, 1859.