Farther hints for restoring animation, and for preserving mankind against the pernicious influence of noxious vapours, or, contaminated air, in a second letter to Dr. Hawes.

  • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Farther hints for restoring animation, and for preserving mankind against the pernicious influence of noxious vapours, or, contaminated air, in a second letter to Dr. Hawes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thologifts, this cannot eafily happen till the vital fundions are already abolifhed,- ;• and therefore cannot with propriety be con- fid ered as the caufe, but rather as the con- ' fequence of drowning. ‘ « f Noxious air, that infidious enemy of life, finds more eafy admiflion into the ^ windpipe, and proves more immediately ] fatal than ftrangulation, fubmerfion'in wa- ter, or even confinement in vacuo. This appears evident from the fudden effecfls of the Grotto del Cani, fumes of fulphur, charcoal and other bodies which exhale phlogifton, or mephitic air. Yet phlo- gifticated air, though highly noxious to ; life, does not feem to adl by exciting pain, .| or irritation, when applied ‘either to the internal furface of the ftomach, or intefti- !■ nal canal, but by a peculiar fedative power ! on the bronchial and olfacftory nerves, by which ,j