An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals / By Robert Whytt.

  • Robert Whytt
Date:
1751
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Credit: An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals / By Robert Whytt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ly more confpicuous, and laft longer, than thofe of the other mufcles. N° 14. ? That the right auricle continues to move, after the heart appears quite dead. N° 14.——17. n That the vena cava and fmns venofus dexter preferve their motions ftill longer than the right auricle. N° 16. - 0 That the motions of the heart and other mufcles, when feparated from the body, are not only at all times increafed, but even re¬ newed, when they are juft at an end, by heat, wounds, ftretching their fibres, or any thing elfe that fliall gently irritate them. N° 2. 3. 4. 8. 9. 10. 12.——17* 1 That, after the heart has entirely, and for a confiderabie time, ceafed to move in dead animals, it may be excited into adion by ftretching or ftimulating its fibres or nerves. No 18. 19. 20. x That as in living animals the voluntary mufcles are not convulfed, except when aJii- mulus is applied to them ; fo in animals newly dead, no convulfive contractions happen, pro¬ vided the fkin be not fo cut as to lay them- bare^