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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![[ 4* ] moft minute or fmalleft particles of the blood fcreened or feparated therefrom, through the glands, which the Author of Nature has contriv¬ ed for that purpofe, by means of the air in the lungs and ele&ric fire: For by its penetrating and fubtle power, all the fluid fecretions of the body are promoted. There is another way by which fleep is oc-cafi- oned; and that is, by drinking fermented liquors, &c, which raife a tumultuous ferment in the body; for the ele&ric fire being exceedingly roufed, cau- fes the animal fpirits to be exhaufted, and then fleep is requifite, that there may be a renewal of them. There are many other ways by which fleep is caufed; but I fliall mention only one more, and then proceed to natural death. Sleep is caufed by fome drugs and plants; par¬ ticularly opium, and its preparations; cornrofe, garden poppies, hemlock; and fmoaking or chew¬ ing tobacco, to thofe unaccuftomed to it, which operates much in the fame manner as fermented li¬ quors. There are alfo other narcotics too nume¬ rous to relate : For fleep is occafioned almoft in the fame manner as related before, by caufing the ani¬ mal fpirits to be exhaufted, and lulls the body afteep. But if too great a portion be adminiftered, it will caufe them to be fo much exhaufted, as to occafi- on the elements to evaporate, and they depart this F ' life](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347440_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
