Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].

  • Curry, James, -1819.
Date:
1815
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    230/248 (page 204)
    included, and this when thrown into the Intestines, im¬ mediately irritates them to contract and expel the whole, without bringing away any thing else; and this conse¬ quence is farther promoted, by the quickness with which, as a test of dexterity, the liquid is usually forced up, which always excites a corresponding strong effort in the intestines to reject it. The Common Syringe is liable to the same objection, of too quickly impelling its contents, and sometimes letting them run out. Whereas this one is subject to neither inconvenience; for without palpable mismanagement (by continuing to turn the handle after all the fluid is drawn into the syringe) not a bubble of air can get admission; and the fluid cannot be in any case suddenly expelled; for the motion of the screw, though powerful, is steady and slow, whereby the intestines are made to yield gradually and more permanently to the distension. This Syringe, from the circumstance of its moving power being a screw, exerts a force, both of suction and expulsion, far greater than can be obtained by any other mode of construction; and accordingly renders it peculiarly fitted, not only for throwing any fluid into the Stomach, but also for drawing any fluid out of it, by the long Flexible Tube, Fig. 4. Plate 3. By these two instruments, a quantity of Water, &c. may not only be easily injected, in order to dilute any poisonous matter previously swallowed ; but I think it even practicable to draw this fluid back again, and thereby lessen the effect which would necessarily follow its remaining there: as for example, in cases of Laudanum or Spi¬ rituous liquors being taken in such large quantity, as to suspend the power of swallowing and vomiting. i* * To