Some Constituents of Normal Blood. A Study Based on the Examination of the Blood of 50 Persons, 25 Men and 25 Women

Quantitative estimation of some constituents 0 blood has become a common practice in ^ ^nical medicine. In order to have a definite ea of the extent of the severity of the patholgical condition, standard values for the constituents estimated in normal human* blood are jssential. The values usually found in the textbooks refer to the Westerners, worked out by the *wkers of the West {e.g. Folin, Wu, Van Slyke, Brown, White Horn and many others). For the first time in India workers of the Haffkine Institute, Bombay, worked a few normals for Indians in general and Bombayites in particular (Sokhey and others, 1937, 1938). Subsequent work done at Calcutta, Madras and Bangalore produced some normals for the local or the provincial people of the respective places. So far no such figures were available for Central India and hence the undertaking of this work. The students from the King Edward Hospital Medical School and nurses attached to the King Edward Hospital, were the subjects of our examination. These were young men and women, apparently healthy and varying between eighteen and twenty-eight years. These represented persons from the lower middle class and upper lower class. Majority of these are vegetarians, a few accustomed to eggs or meat