A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation : being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject : to elucidate the proximate cause, to appretiate the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, honorary member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris; also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c.

Anthony Fothergill

Date:: 1795

Credit: A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation : being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject : to elucidate the proximate cause, to appretiate the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, honorary member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris; also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PACE. SECT. V. Sufpcnfion occafioned by Noxious Air 2i Whether more fuddenly fatal 22 Whether attended with-other peculiarities £2 67 SECT. VI. Sufpenfion from Smothering—Whether fimilar 23 Whether jiill-born children might notfometimes lie re- covered 23 SECT. VII. Rcfult of Experiments refpefting Vital air—Nature of Refpiration—Its effefts on the blood—Its impor- tance to life 24 Whether vital air be the only refpirable part of the almofphere 27-28 Whether it undergoes certain alterations in refpira~ tion 30 Whether it changes the colour of the blood 31 Whether the blood alternately contrails impurities and is alternately purified 32 SECT. VIII. Animal Heat—Its Sources—Uniformity and connexion with Refpiration 33 Heat-~its general properties—is fubjecl to the laws of attraction 34 Whether any climate can be faid to be too hot or too cold for its native inhabitants 35 Animal heat—whether dependent on the oxygenation of the blood 39 6° Whether received in a latent, and evolved in a fenfi- ble form—zvhefher this procefs depends on double eleElive attraBion 40 SECT. IX. Proximate caufe of death in drowning and fuffocation 41 Whether dependent on any of the drcumjlanccs hi-

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