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88 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
estimated at 25 or 28 pounds,
weight of the body.
When allowed to stand for some hours after being
or about one-fifth the
drawn, the blood separates itself into two portions, a
central, solid portion, called the clot, and a yellow watery
serum. The clot is composed of a mass of fibrin, which
of blood
has drawn together, in its meshes, a quantity
discs, or cells, about one-five-thousandth of an inch in
diameter, which contain the red coloring matter.
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Fig. 27. Fig. 2T represents the blood-
^1 corpuscles, as seen on their
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z*1^ flat surface and edge. Couii/J
Kt\fi3 gcr'es of blood-corpuscles in
w>»""~
columns. In coagulating, the
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• each other,
corpuscles apply themselves to
so as to resemble
(Sx ffl^ piles of money. Below are
blood globules, or cells, contain-
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CORPUSCLES OF THE BLOOD.
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mg smaller cells, which are set
free by the dissolution of the containing cell.
I have already given the chemical analysis of blood.
It consists of water, fibrin, albumen, and some mineral
constituents. Its most important ultimate elements are
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. The blood
contains in itself the materials necessary for the nutri
tion of every tissue of the body. It contains, moreover,
the matter of all secretions. The milk, bile, urine,
foecal matter, perspiration, saliva, tears, are all in the
blood, actually existing, or with their elements ready to
be combined. Body-matter, brain-matter, soul-matter,
it is all in the blood.
This blood is constantly circulating through the sys
tem. It passes through the heart at the rate of about
five hundred pounds an hour. All that passes through