Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. And an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases / [Edited, with a life of the author, by E. Darwin].
- Charles Darwin
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. And an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases / [Edited, with a life of the author, by E. Darwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![or their irritability decreafed ^ but the mo¬ tive mufcles, when they are deprived of their natural ftimuli, or of their irritability, be¬ come torpid and paralytic; as is feen in the tremulous hand of the drunkard, in a morn¬ ing ; and in the awkward flep of age. The hollow mufcles alfo, of which the various velfels of the body are conftrudled, when they are deprived of their natural ftimuli, or of their due degree of irritabi¬ lity, not only become tremulous, as the ar¬ terial pulfations of dying people; but alfo frequently invert their motions, as in vomit¬ ing, in hyfteric fuffocations, and diabaetes above-defcribed. I MUST beg your patient attention, for a few moments, whilft I endeavour to explain, how the retrograde adlions of our hollow mufcles are the confequence of their debi¬ lity ; as the tremulous adtions of the folid mufcles are the confequence of their debility. When, through fatigue, a mufcle can adt no longer; the antagonift mufcles, either by their inanimate elafticity, or by their] ani¬ mal adlion, draw the limb into a contrary diredtion: in the folid mufcles, as thofe of locomotion, their adtions arc affociated in M tribes^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30383018_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
