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Excerpt from On the Blood and Urine This Manual is intended to assist the practitioner or student in medicine in discovering the deviations from health, and their nature in the blood and the various secretions of the body. An outline of the mode of analysing the different products, suffi cient for practical purposes, is also subjoined, so as to make it a complete practical manual. The several branches of this subject have lately received a large share of attention, partien larly from the German and French authors and treatises somewhat analogous to this have appeared in those languages. The absence of such a one in this country has induced me to undertake the filling up of this deficiency. Much has also lately been done in the application Of organic chemistry to the explanation of the phaenomena of healthy and morbid actions. But I have avoided any notice of these views, as in many cases they are quite theoretical, and in the majority not well esta blished. The use of the modern microscope is revealing to us the true structure of bodies in health, and their alterations in disease, with their true relations to their vital products, secre tions. And as recourse to the microscope often abbreviates chemical experiments, and enables us to ascertain the chemical nature of very minute portions Of matter, I have added an ac count, with figures of the microscopical characters of each sub stance. In some cases, Where I have not had Opportunities, or at least insufficient ones, of testing their accuracy, or where I do not feel authorised in assenting to the correctness of their Observations, I have borrowed the statements of former authors, and have given their names as authorities. Further informa tion on these subjects and all their branches may be obtained from the writings of Becquerel, Berzelius, Bird, Christison, Liebig, Prout, Rayer, Rees, Simon, Turner, Vigla, Vogel, and Willis, to whom in some instances I am much indebted. [have also to acknowledge the kind assistance offered me on several occasions by W. Francis, Esq. It is to he wished that the facility I trust this Manual will afford those anxious to prose cute this most interesting branch of medical inquiry, in exa mining and appreciating morbid states of the various secretions, may enable us shortly to arrive at some more satisfactory con elusions respecting the pathological relations of these fluids. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.