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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![[ ‘3 ] 4‘ time the heart retained its ufual pulfation. So long as the flux continued, the patient drank the u broth; when it flopped, he took coarfer diet; and by degrees was reftored to his health, and grew a robuft, healthy man/* “The general knowledge of this latter faft may “ prove of infinite fervice to the world; as it evin- “ ces that the lofs of blood may be fupplied by what u I may call artificial food for the veins.” / I mention thefe two faffs in vindication of my aflertion ; which is, that the blood is the nounjhment of the body, and not the life, as is generally believed» But to return to the various and excellent qua¬ lities of the ele&ric fire;—The corpufcles thereof being gently agitated, promotes an appetite and digeftion, but being too intenfely roufed, deftroys it, as is evident by unufual and violent exercifes of any kind; as hard labour, when no folid food can be taken, but only fome liquid fubftance, to refrefh the body and cool the heat that is occafion- ed thereby; but, being gently moved, by its vivi¬ fying heat doth nourifti and ftrengthen the whole body. The different difpofitions, the beauty and defor¬ mity of animal bodies as to their colour, confid¬ ence, and fhape, are principally dependent on the * ele&ric fire : Hence every plant, fruit, and flower, receive](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347440_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
