Excerpt from The Cause of the Coagulation of the Blood: Being the Astley Cooper Prize Essay for 1856, With Additional Observations and Experiments, and With an Appendix, Showing the Bearings of the Subject on Practical Medicine and PathologyTo Drs. Snow and Thudichum, and to Mr. Thomas Taylor, Lecturer on Chemistry at the Middlesex Hos pital, I express equal gratitude.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.