The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney.

Whitney, Daniel H.

Date:: 1833

Credit: The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$from suffocation; and hence| muscles: This is a matter of less hopes need be entertained) primary importanee as_ the of recovering drowned persons] following experiments will after a considerable interval, | prove : than when the vital heat has Prepare the posterior limbs deen suffered to continue with] of a frog for voltaic electriza- little abatement. None of the | tion , leaving the crural nerves ordinary practices judictously connected, as usual, to a de- ‘enjoined by the humane soci-| tached portion of the spine. ety, should ever on such ocea-| When the excitability has be- sion be neglected. For it is} come nearly exhausted,plunge surely culpable to pate any, the limbs into the water of one pains which may contribute,| wine glass, and the crural in the slightest degree, to re-| nerves with their pendant por- eall the fleeting breath of man, tion of spine, into that of the to its cherished mansion. | other. The edges of the two My attention has been again| glasses should be almost in particularly directed to this|contact. Then taking a rod mteresting subject, by a very |of zinc in one hand, and a rod flattering Jetter which I re-|{ofsilver, (or a silver teaspoon) ceived from the learned Secre-| in the other , plunge the former yr of the Royal Humane So-| into the water of the limbs? i€ class, and the latter into that of the nerves’ glass, without touching the frog itself, and gently strike the dry parts of the bright metals tegether. Feeble convulsive moveme or mere twitching of the bres, will be perceived at ev- In the preceding account, I had accidentally “omitted. to state a very essential circum- stance relative to the electri- zation of Clydesdale. The paper indeed was very rapidly written, at the busiest period of my public prelection, to be|ery contact. Reverse now presented to the society, as a}the position of the metallic substitute for the essay of an (rods, that is, plunge | the zinc absent friend, and was sent off into the nerves’ glass, and the to London the morning after silyer into the other. On re- jt was read. - newing the contact of thedry The positive pole or wire | surfaces of the metal now, ve+».. connected with the zinc end|ry lively convulsions will take of the battery, was that which} place; and if the limbs are 1 applied to the nerve; and | skilfully disposed in a narrow- the negative, or that connect- ish conical glass, they will = with the copper end, was probablyyspring out to some at which I applied to. the distance. This interesting ex- Faren$