Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . 370 HANDBOOK OF HYDROPATHY. that which is raised and separated from the derma by a blister. Although itwould be impossible to give, in a work like the present, figures which wouldconvey any notion of the local distribution of the blood-vessels through thebody, other than the general representation of the arterial system given inPig. 314, it may, nevertheless, be interesting to readers who are not professionallymedical, to see the wonderful structure of the vascular system in some of theprincipal
Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . 370 HANDBOOK OF HYDROPATHY. that which is raised and separated from the derma by a blister. Although itwould be impossible to give, in a work like the present, figures which wouldconvey any notion of the local distribution of the blood-vessels through thebody, other than the general representation of the arterial system given inPig. 314, it may, nevertheless, be interesting to readers who are not professionallymedical, to see the wonderful structure of the vascular system in some of theprincipal parts of the human economy. Blood-vessels or the Mesentery.—In Fig. 328 are represented the trunk(1) and the innumerable ramifications and anastomoses (2, 3, 4, 5) ot the arterywhich spreads over the mesentery, a membranous structure connected witathe intestines. O o o -< o w ao. 4M I 1 Fig. 332 Fig. 333. All the auimal and saline. matter held in solution in the serum being removedthe fluid that remains is water, the proportion of which in 1000 parts varies from THE BLOOD. 37l 853, the maximum, to 779, the minimum. The second constituent of the blood,the fibrin, is the most essential portion of it, being invariably present, whateverother constituents be absent. While circulating in the living vessel, fibrin isfluid and transparent; by the process of coagulation, it is converted into a solidand opaque substance of a yellowish white colour, consisting of stringy fibres,disposed in striae, which occasionally form a complete network (Fig. 111).These fibres are exceedingly elastic. In their general aspect and their chemicalrelations they bear a close resemblance to pure muscular fibre, that is, tomuscular fibre deprived of its enveloping membrane and of its colouring matter,and they form the basis of muscle. According to M. le Canu, the proportion ofthe fibrin vari
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