Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton].
- Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![J l 13 ] mull be a more equitable circulation, and diftribution of the blood. I know no proof, however, that this fluid is augmenting in its volume, but that it is in a Hate almoft of llagnation is evident. Dr. Alfton, in the prefence, and with the afliftance of Mr. Fullarton, a gentleman /killed in microfcopical obfervations, in Augufl: 1733, conveyed into the ftomach of a frog foine Opium diffolyed in water, and after putting it into a glafs cylinder, they adapted the microfcope to the membrane between the toes, in fuch a manner, that they - had a diftindl view of the circulation of the blood in this part. The Dr. had found before that Opium killed thefe ani- * mals, and his delign now was to obferve its effects on the circulation ; no change, however, took place either in the colour or 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30361576_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
