An essay on the torpidity of animals / By Henry Reeve.

  • Henry Reeve
Date:
1809
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Credit: An essay on the torpidity of animals / By Henry Reeve. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION I. PHiENOMENA OF TORPIDITY. D URING their state of hybernation the temperature of the animals is considera- bly diminished, the circulation of the blood becomes slower and is sometimes almost entirely stopped, the respiration is rendered less frequent, and, when the torpor is complete, wholly suspended, the digestion ceases, and the action of the muscular and nervous powers is for a time suppressed. Some animals of every class, except birds and fishes, afford examples of this suspended animation in the winter: the different
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