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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    [ 119 ] fhould be always preferred to atmofpheric air. I have employed it in feveral inflances in the fmaller animals, and the recovery was commonly more expeditious than where atmofpheric air was ufed; but I have not yet been able to recover an animal with dephlogiflicated air, where good atmofphe¬ ric air had been ineffectual. Several other remedies have been recom¬ mended for this difeafe by different writers, and many of them are faid to have been employed with fuccefs j but as the circum- ftances of their application, and the pro- greffive changes in the body, are not mi¬ nutely detailed, nothing can yet be faid to be determined in favour of their particular efficacy. If indeed we were to judge of them from the hiftory of their introduction, or from their ordinary operation on living bodies, little affiftance would be expeCted from them. I 4 Some