First Principles of Medicine (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Archibald Billing

9780484371629: First Principles of Medicine (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484371622 ISBN 13: 9780484371629

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The color of the blood is caused by red particles diffused through a transparent ﬂuid which is called serum (whey), from its resemblance to that ﬂuid when blood is first drawn the red particles may be seen ﬂoating about by the means of a microscope, but when it stands they settle down to the bottom and form a cake or clot (called cruor or crassamentum).

Some capillaries are too small to admit the red particles unless when they are enlarged by inﬂammation, as in the eye, which when inﬂamed changes from white to red; besides that, even the red capillaries are so minute that they are not visible Individually to the naked eye till enlarged by inﬂammation.

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