The hygrology, or chemico-physiological doctrine of the fluids of the human body

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of the FLUIDS of the. HUMAN BODY. The serum is coagulated by the concentraled minerat alad et egetabis acias, a S radicat Vinegar, and

a. Albuminous gluten. Serum stiri ed about with asich, separates a large quantity of gluten, like the white os an egg. By frost, the water of the serum is convertea inlo ice, and the album en is separa ted. The same thing is done by alcohol, by the minerat acor, and byboiling Water. 3. Bib. Is equat paris of waler and serum os ille blood be coagulated by sire, that part of thesurum Whicli is not coagulated, upon bcing

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.6 ' The CHEMICO PHYSIOLOGICAL Doctrine cooled, puis on the appearance of a tremulous

by pauring on minerat acids, a neutral saliis obtained ; Whose basis is the minerat alkali. s. Culinar ' fati, obta ined frona incinerated car- . bone along With aerated fida, and pho phoraled

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- of the FLUIDS of the HUMAN BODY. It is solubie in the concent icted minerat acidfand by the caussc alia lL It is precipitaled froman acid solution by means of Water, and irona anathaline solution, by means os aci,

. The nitrous acid turras it yellow, the vitriolic a cor red, and the acid os sali to an amethystine

men of the serum appear to be carbone, aZoie, and hydrogene.

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8 The CHEMICO PHYSIOLOG CAL Doctrinest. By iis it renders ille blood plastic andi viscidulous; lest it escape froni the vos is by excessive tenuity.

ledis on iis fides into drops like de . The SMELL of this vapour is singular, and nidorous; in carniuorous animais it is strongeriand is called animal

Thus the flem of a recently killed animal,

upon being exposed to the colit, at least in the

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The SUPERFLUOUS animal gas is eliminated by . the si in and ltangs, under the nam e of culaneous and pulmonary transpiration. Lastly, it appeais tolle contained. in every cavs0 of the body Ilius, in the winter time, upon laying open the abdomen, thoraX, peri cardium, and even the cavlty of the Cranium, a thick vapour is emitted. The CONSTITUENT PRINCIPI Es of this animal 'gaS dine carbonaled hi drogene; or carbone distatu edin hydrogene and mixed Uith a smali quantity or

That carbonated hydrogene is exhaled si omthc blood, the fauiling up of blood recentlydrawn, in vital air, demonstrates lhe vital ait by this means being convertcd by the exhaling gas os the blood, into carbonic or fixedati . For the oxygene of the vital air unites

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so The CHEM CO-PHYSIOLOGICAL Doctrin . milli ille carbo i id os me exhaled gas, and sol nastixed air; and the hydrogene of the animalgas combining illi the oxyge ne of vital air,

is converted in o water. The very sanae metamorphose is observed in the carbonat ed hydrogene expired si ona the lungs, and in that exhaledi rom the nin. Thus the expired air of the lungs precipitales lime Hater, Whicli is the criteriora ossi xed air. Thus ille air os a confined chamber, and of that in whicli there are many persons, is graduallychanged into mere si Xed air and agote, in V hicli,

Iise is destroyed, frona ille consumptio0 of vitalair; as was ille case With the Engli , confine i in the blach hole, in the Eas-Indies. And thus, alii, mater distilled froin the fluidqand paris of animal bodies is of an insipid animal odour, and quichly be comeS putrid.

It is DEcoMPOSED by vital air nato carbonic gas and water; but united With agote it appears loconstitute carbonated hydrogene, or putrid aikalescent mirama.

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The reason vhy me do not perceive this weight of the atmospheric air, is hecause the animal gaSand matter of heat latent in the body, are in equilibrio with it, and resist iis pressure. 3. The evolution and propagalisu os animal beat through the body. For the vital air absorbed by the lungs, and circulating v illi thu

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sa The CHEMICO-ΡHYSIOLOGICA L Docti Ine arterial blood, is decomposed by the animalgas of the blood: herace the oxygene of the vital air, uni ting with the hydrogene of the animal gas, is converted into Nater. Thus the matter of heat of the vital air is every where evolved, and being disen gaged, constitutes animal beat: The Carbone, being trans milled to the venous blood, gives it a blac

4. The animal gas exhaling through the lungs

and shin, constitutes the culaneous and pulmonarPtran piration. s. It fornas the animal vapour, sound in the cavities of the Cranium, thorax, pericardium, abdOmen, and the celis of the cellular membrane; by Whicli means the concretion of these cavit tesis prevented.

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THE LYMPII OF THE LYMPHATIC VESSEI S. THE liquid contained in the lymphatic vestas:

The lymphatic velleis AssoRB this Water, si omitte tela cellulosa of the whole body, si ona ali theviscera and cavities of the viscera: and conuo itto the thoracic duet, Where it is mixcd with thechyle.

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sι The CHEMICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL D inritae Ussi: This lympii returns the superfluous nu- tritious jelly from every pari, and mixes it withthe chyle in the thoracic dudi, there to be fui ther converted into the nature of the animal and Iasily, it returns the superfluouS aqueOUS Vapou whicli is expired into the cavlty of the cranium, thorax. and abdomen.