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 IIJ ] contains ioo cubic inches of air, and com- municates with the atmofphere by the fmall circular opening a. The pifton D E is of wood, and lined with a foft fubftance at the bottom E, fo as to be air-tight. The two openings d> b> are to allow the air to efcape, when the pifton is drawn higher than the circular opening a* The tube C is for the attachment of a fmaller one, to be inferted into the nofe, larynx, or tra¬ chea (<z)» If the lungs are to be inflated, the extre¬ mity of the fmall tube rauft be inferted into one of the aerial paflages, and the others I 2 properly (a) I am favoured with this inflrument by Dr* Nooth, a Gentleman diflinguifhed as much for libe¬ rality as genius, to whom the Arts are indebted for feveral valuable inventions, which are commonly attributed to others.