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Blood Spectra

  • 1885

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Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates the solar spectrum in figure one with blood spectra as follows:

2: oxy haemogloben
3: haemoglobin (reduced haemoglobin)
4: methaemoglobin
5: acid haematin
6: alkaline haematin
7: reduced haematin
8: carbonic oxide haemoglobin

Frontispiece plate is found in Micro-Chemistry of Poisons by Theodore G. (Theodore George) Wormley (1826-1897).

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Wormley, Theodore G. (Theodore George). “Blood Spectra.” Micro-Chemistry of Poisons. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1885. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/pu565j5.

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