An experimental inquiry into the nature, cause, and varieties of the arterial pulse : and into certain other properties of the larger arteries, in animals with warm blood. / by Caleb Hillier Parry.

Caleb Hillier Parry

Date:: 1816

Credit: An experimental inquiry into the nature, cause, and varieties of the arterial pulse : and into certain other properties of the larger arteries, in animals with warm blood. / by Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

50/200 page 40

$\ 6 ly IncJi, r Circumference immediate]}^ after death ) Convulsive and stertorous respiration j now occurred, and the animal dying', V no more blood could be obtained. Circumference about five minutes after death, » I 3 Ditto - - ten minutes after death 4-0 0 Ditto •» - 4t hours after death ^44. Ditto - - lit hours after death ^ Ditto , - 23 hours after death ^ Ditto - - 28t hours after death Putrifaction had now begun, EXPERIMENT XXV. October 24, 1815, Sf a. m. Present Mr. Chapman, Mr. Wood, Mr, Sal,mon, and myself. Mr. Coombs opened the left side of the tho- rax of a Rabbit, so as to exhibit the aorta, just beyond the curvature. The lung* on that side was perfectly col- lapsed on the apex of the heart, the motions of which were very distinct. As the apex shifted its place at each systole of tl>e ventricle, the lung was strongly moved with it, and returned to its place at the diastole. The aorta was$