The generation of animal heat, investigated / [E. Peart].

  • Edward Peart
Date:
1788
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Credit: The generation of animal heat, investigated / [E. Peart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    57 SECTION IV. I On the Nature, or leading Chemical Principle of the Nervous Fluid. R O M the preceding confiderations, the ner¬ vous fluid appears to be an eflential part in the compofition of heat, fupplied by the brain: The Brain itfelf feems to be a glandular mafs, fupplied with a greater quantity of arterial blood m piopoition to its bulk, than any other part of the body, except the Lungs, by the carotid and vertebral arteries, which are the fir A confiderable branches fent off by the Aorta. II the quantity of blood fent from the heart to the brain, be fuddenly and greatly diminifhed, or interrupted, in its paffage through the carotids, the brain wanting that firmnefs, plenitude or ten- fion, which the blood veifels naturally fupporr., becomes collapfed or flaccid ; in confequence of which, it loles its power of impelling the nervous Hiud along the nerves, to the voluntary and in- J voluntary mufcles in proper quantity; hence arife H relaxation.
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