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Excerpt from Prize Essay Read Before the Ohio State Medical Society, at Its Eighth Annual Meeting in Dayton: June, 1853
But our proof does not rest here. 'clinical observation has long since established the alteration of the blood in diseases which are termed putrid the blood appears to be in a partial state of dissolution: its vitality is destroyed, and its fibrin either not elaborated, or dis solved in the process of putrefaction. As a result of this decomposition an increased quantity of hydro-sulphate of ammonia has been found in the blood of patients suffering from Typhus and other malignant diseases; and hence the alkaline reaction of the urine that is so often observed to be present in these fevers. 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.
