An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.

  • Charles Kite
Date:
1788
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Credit: An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [6] {pectable authors ; from whofe experiments it appears, that frequently no water is taken into the ftomach, at leaft by no means fufficient to produce the effect’ which is attributed to it. Dr. De Haen, in thirteen dogs which he diffected, found no fulnefs in their ftomachs ; and the ex- periments which I have made on kittens, in that re{pect, coincide entirely with the Doétor’s, for not one drop of water was found in the ftomach of any of them. As death then is often produced where this caufe does not exift, the arguments which have been built upon it, mutt of courfe fall to the ara: adly. It is well known that the blood, in its paflage through the lungs, under- goes fome very particular and important change: in what this confifts, we are probably not quite certain; the general opinion however, among the moft cele- brated phyfiologifis of the prefent day, is, that a portion of pure, dephlogifticated, or
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