An experimental essay, on the manner in which opium acts on the living animal body / By Alexander Philip Wilson.

  • Alexander Wilson Philip
Date:
1795
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Credit: An experimental essay, on the manner in which opium acts on the living animal body / By Alexander Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    duced by an irritation of the nares, a pain felt in the glans penis from an af- i fe&ion of the bladder &c. ; ] Thefe phenomena, then, may be di- j vid&d into two claffes; thofe in which fenfation, and thofe in which motion, is the’ refuit. I (hall, in^ the firft place, conli-- der the former, becaufe under it the more numerous fet of facts are included; and becaufe, what I fhall fay of this clafs will be found ufeful in fpeaking of the- other. The* * With regard to thofe cafes of iyrnpathy in whiefi the mtifcles of involuntary motion only are concern- ed, they do not fall to be considered here; fmee, in the prefent ftate of our knowledge, there is not a fhadow of roafon for attributing them to any con- nection of nerves.