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It may be shown to be heavier and denser than water; to have a faint odor and a slightly salty taste; to have a bright red color when it contains oxygen and a dark red color when oxygen is absent; and to undergo, when exposed to certain conditions, a change called coagulation. These properties are all accounted for through the different materials that enter into the formation of the blood.
The presence of a foreign substance increases the rapidity of coagulation, and it has been observed that bleeding from small wounds is more quickly checked by covering them with linen or cotton fibers. The fibers in this case hasten the process of coagulation. *Quantity of Blood.*—The quantity of blood is estimated to be about one thirteenth of the entire weight of the body.
It was like the stroke of some disease it was like the water vanishing out of the blood of a living creature; it was a sudden, universal coagulation of intercourse....
The temperature must be approximately between 50° and 100° F. Below 32° F. and above 150° F., no decay occurs. Experience has proved that the coagulation of the sap retards, but does not prevent, the decay of wood permanently.
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