The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn.

  • Edmund Goodwyn
Date:
1788
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Credit: The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 1 *4 ] fiderable, we mud remove fome of it, before the air is introduced. Sometimes a fmall portion of it will pafs out by its own gra¬ vity, when the head is reclined; and ftill more may perhaps be taken away by an inftrument fo contrived, on the principles of the pump, as to exhauft the lungs of a part of their contents. For this purpofe, I propofe the inftru- ment ABODE, The brafs cylinder A B contains If I inflated them fully in this ftate, the colour of the blood in the Anus venofus and left auricle was not apparently changed, and the heart did not renew its contractions, although it Hill retained the faculty of contraction. Some limilar caies are mentioned, by the Dutch writers, in the human fubjeCt after fubmerflon. The perfons infpired feveral times of themfelves, but ftill they did not recover; and this failure may perhaps be accounted for in the fame manner.