Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning.
- Joseph Taylor
- Date:
- [1795?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ » ] the lungs (as was mentioned before) began to play* that there might be a continual ferment, the pulia¬ tion of the heart enfued, the blood began to circu¬ late, life and motion appeared, and he recovered. As the reftoration of the dog depended on the blood, it mull be by this way : For how was it poflible for him without the influx of the animal fpirits, to caufe the lungs to exercife their office, and the heart to remit its pulfations, by any other means? There¬ fore it is evident that the motion of the heart and circulation of the blood, depend upon the influx or accenfion of the animal fpirits. There has appeared in a public print two re¬ markable cafes, fomething fimilar to the above, which I fhall relate ; viz u That the transfufion or cf infufion of a liquid into the veins of an animal, is an old experiment, and has been pra&ifed with cc fuccefs more than a century paft. But when the u celebrated Dr. Lower tried it, he had in view this •“ great object,—to know whether the motion of the heart depended on the influx of the animal fpirits? “or on the accenfion and dilatation of the blood <s in its ventricles; and not merely to find outwhe- “ tber the blood of a calf could be conveyed into “ the veins of a dog. I have the authority of Dr. i: Gibjon, whofe works are valuable, as well from “ their fcarcity as for their excellence, to fay. That “ Dr. Lower above one hundred and fifty years ago, “ in order to prove that the accenfion and confe-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347440_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
