The Connexion of Life with Respiration; Or, An Experimental Inquiry Into the Fffects [sic] of Submersion, Strangulation, and Several Kinds of Noxious Airs, on Living Animals: With an Account of the Nature of the Disease They Produce; Its Distinction from Death Itself; and the Most Effectual Means of CureT. Spilsbury, 1788 - 126 pages An expansion of Goodwyn's 1786 Edinburgh dissertation. Cf. Baas, Outline of the history of medicine, p. 707, note 1. |
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abforbed Acad acid gas action afcertain alfo alſo animal arterial atmoſpheric air auricle azote body bronchia cafes carbonic acid caufe cauſe cavity Chim chyle circumftances colour complete expiration conclufions confequence confiderable confifts confumed contraction cubic inches dephlogiſticated air diaphragm diminiſhed diſcharged diſeaſe effects eftimate employed eſtimate exift exiſtence fame feems feveral fhall fimilar fince fingle inſpiration firft firſt fixed air fluid fome ftate ftill fubftance fubject fufficient fuppofed fyftem Haller heart hydrogene hypothefis increaſed inftance inſpiration Lavoifier lefs left auricle Lond lungs meaſure moſt motion mufcular muft muſcles muſt neceffary nitrous oxide Note obfervations opinion ordinary oxide oxygene paffage paffed phyfiologifts Phys pleuræ preffure previouſly proceſs produced propofed proportion pulmonary veffels pulmonary veins purpoſe quan quantity of air quantity of oxygene reaſon refpecting refpiration refults ſeveral ſmall ſtate ſtill ſuppoſes thefe theſe theſe experiments thoracic duct thorax thoſe tion trachea uſe veficles veins
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Page 244 - From the greater strength and vivacity of the flame of a candle, in this pure air, it may be conjectured, that it might be peculiarly salutary to the lungs in certain morbid cases, when the common air would not be sufficient to carry off the phlogistic putrid effluvium fast enough.
Page 185 - Innumerable trains or tribes of other motions are associated with these muscular motions which are excited by irritation; as by the stimulus of the blood in the right chamber of the heart, the lungs are induced to expand themselves; and the pectoral and intercostal muscles, and the diaphragm, act at the same time by their associations with them.
Page 53 - ... florid ; and when the inflation was intermitted for a minute, the blood in the trunks of the pulmonary vein became gradually black, like that in the arteries.
Page 95 - A quantity of aqueous vapour, the amount of which is ftill undetermined, is emitted from the lungs. ' 5. It is probable that a fmall portion of azote is abforbed, upon an average about T£g.
Page 13 - ... The Connection of Life with Respiration; or an Experimental Inquiry into the Effects of Submersion, Strangulation, and several Kinds of noxious Airs, on living Animals illustrates the pattern of confinement and trial in a scientific report: I confined a cat ... in an erect posture, and made a small opening in the trachea by cutting out one of the cartilaginous rings. Through this opening, I introduced two ounces of water into the lungs. The animal had immediately a difficulty breathing and a...
Page 95 - The whole volume of the air is diminished by respiration ; the degree of diminution is not very accurately ascertained, but it may be estimated at about / of its bulk. ' 4. A quantity of aqueous vapour, the amount of which...
Page 75 - ... distinguished men. Lavoisier was the first, however, to make a quantitative examination of the changes produced in the air by breathing. In 1780, he performed a remarkable experiment, in which a guinea-pig was confined over mercury in a jar containing 248 cubic inches of gas consisting principally of oxygen. In an hour and a quarter the animal breathed with much difficulty, and, being removed from the apparatus, the state of the air was examined. Its bulk was found to be diminished by 8 cubic...
Page 42 - Goodwyn^ he concludes that the lungs contain 109 cubic inches of air after a complete expiration ; and that this quantity receives an addition of fourteen cubic inches by infpiration.
Page 131 - The blood which is expelled from the right ventricle of the heart into the pulmonary arterv is of a dull purple colour : during its paffage through the capillaries of the lungs, its colour is converted into a bright fcarlet, in which ftstfe it is returned to the left auricle of the heart.
Page 219 - When Air's pure essence joins the vital flood, And with phosphoric Acid dyes the blood, Your Virgin Trains the transient Heat dispart, And lead the soft combustion round the heart; Life's holy lamp with fires successive feed, From the crown...