Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 46: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, January, 1863

From these experiments I conclude, that the albuminoids of the blood, can, under certain conditions, undergo such change as to give origin to specific ferments which do not exist in normal healthy blood, and that during certain diseases, it not only has a greater tendency to produce these ferments, but will even give rise to others, both difi'erent and more active, than such as would arise from the sim lo spontaneous alteration of normal blood.

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