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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![[ 1* ] “ quent dilatation of the blood, was not the foie “ caufe of the pulfation of the heart, drew out of the “jugular vein of a dog about one half of his blood, “inje&ing by turns into the crural vein, a like “ quantity of beer mixed with a little wine; and “ this he repeated, until the blood was exhaufted, “and the veins contained nothing but the beer and “wine; fo that the liquid appeared like water in “which raw flefh had been wafhed, or rather lik<^ “ water tinjured with claret. During this date, he “ lays, the heart remitted none of its former pul- “ lations. This is a more extraordinary infufion “ than the transfufton lately mentioned, and cer¬ tainly furnilhes the idea of the dog, &c. “ Dr. Gibfon relates another fa& fomewhat fimilar “to this, as a collate)al proof refpebting the pulfa- “ tion of the heart. He Oates, that a youth about “two years old, continued bleeding for two days “together; that fearing death mult be the inevitable “ confequence, as the blood could not be (topped, “ a large quantity of broth was given him ; and as “ he (wallowed the broth, the bleeding increafed, u infomuch that the v hole mafs of blood was ex- “ haufted from the veins, and nothing came out but “ what was pale and dilute ; neither of the nature “ or colour of blood, but actually refembled both “ in appearance and tafte, the broth of which he * had drank fo plentifully. He adds, that this kind <1rof flux continued for two days; and during that u time](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347440_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
