They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert.
- Lambert, T. S. (Thomas Scott), 1819-1897
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![lar. It must ii], fact have great latitude in order to satisfy the constantly varying needs of all parts of the Body. The heart must and does beat faster when we sit, than when we lie down, faster when we stand, and still faster when we run. Remember also the often varying needs of the Passive Tissues, and the greatly and constantly varying need of blood by the Secretory Tissue. There must, therefore, be and there are Nervous Centres which regulate the action of this organ. ESSENTIAL USE OF OXYGEN. Notice also, with very particular emphasis, that there is a double cause for variation in the circulation of blood about and among the Musculatory Tissues. The flowing blood not only brings to them their needed materials for use, but it takes from them that which they throw out as effete. The Secretory Tissue discharges from the Body its effete matter by way of its own surfaces ; hence it needs only to be supplied with food and water introduced into the blood. But oxygen introduced into the blood through the lungs at each breath, is a greati purifier, a grand disinfectant, a speedy scavenger, which, circulating everywhere in the blood, seizes upon every effete particle thrown out by the active Tissues into the blood, and instantly combihing with it, burns or oxidizes it, producing then and there, from what would be poisonous if allowed to accumulate, new and harmless compounds which are soon discharged from the Body. At the same time that the oxygen performs this essential duty it produces in part, and at the si3ot where needed, the heat required to sustain the temperatures of the active Tis- sues. ThuE it appears that the purification and proper tem- perature, as well as the nutrition of the Musculatory Tissue, (the same will be found true of the Nervous Tissue,) are de- pendent uiDon the regulated and ever varied flow of blood,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21062961_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
