A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds (Volume 2).

  • John Hunter
Date:
1796
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    ing the afs for another experiment, the following appear- ances were found in the uterus. The horns of the uterus were filled with ferum, and the inflammation had run fo high by the ftimulating injec- tions which were ufed for the experiments on the vagina, that the coagulating lymph had been thrown out fo asal- moft to obliterate the vagina, uterus, etc. by thofe adhe- fions which are the ultimate efFe£ls of inflammation on fe- creting canals, while fuppuration is the ultimate efFeft of inflammation on internal furfaces : there were no figns of inflammation on the external furface of the uterus which is covered by the peritoneum. It may juft be remarked, that hi moft of thofe experi- ments the heat in the morning was a degree lefs than in the evening ; and I may alfo remark, that this is common- ly the cafe in the natural heat of the animal. I wifhed to know whether fuch animals as have little or no power of varying their natural heat, had a power of incrcafmg their heat in confequence of injuries; for which purpofe I opened into circumfcribed cavities in frogs, toads, and fnails, and at different periods, after the open- ing was made, the thermometer was intioduced. As the heat of thofe animals is principally from the atmofphere, the external heat is to be connedled v/ith the experiments. NOVEMBER 1], I 788. A healthy toad and frog, after having the heat in the ftomach ascertained, had openings made through the fkin of the belly, large enough to admit a thermometer, and the orifice was kept open by a piece of fponge. Atmofphere 36° Stomach of both 40° Under (kin of the belly . . . 40° Atm. Frog. Toad. Stom. Under the Ikin. Half an hour after the opening . ^S* • 4^ • 4°*' • 4*^*^ Hour and a half 35^. 39*^ . 39° Two hcurs snd a half 39° . 39° The abdomen m as new opened, and a piece of fponge kept in the orHicc.
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