Physiological Researches on Life and Death


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Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death


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Excerpt from Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death: Physician of the Hotel-Dieu, Professor of Several Learned of Anatomy, Physiology and Medicine, and Mmev Be it remembered, That on the third day of July, in the thirty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1809, Smith Maxwell, of the said district, have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: Physiological Researches upon Life and Death; Xav. Btchat, Physician of the Hotel-Dieu, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Medicine, and Member of several Learned Societies. Translated, from the French by Tobias Watkins, Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Physician to the Marine Hospital of Baltimore, &c. First American from the second Paris edition. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death


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Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ... prejudiced by no particular system, often make more correct observations than ourselves, who look only for what we wish to find corroborative of our previously formed opinions. 6th. There are various examples of patients who, after recovering from the state of asphixia into which the vapour of the charcoal had thrown them, retain for a longer or shorter time, different alterations in the intellectual functions and in the voluntary motions, alterations which evidently have their seat in the brain. For many days after the accident, if it has been carried to a certain degree, the patients stagger about, are not able to support themselves on their legs, and their ideas are confused. This is, in a smaller degree, what apoplexy presents in a higher. Sometimes convulsive motions manifest themselves almost immediately after the impression of the mephitic vapours. A pain in the head has sometimes lastedfor several days after the disappearance of all the other symptoms. In the works of those who have made this subject their study, particularly in that of M. Portal, may be seen multiplied instances of the fatal and often long protracted influence of the black blood, when carried to the brain by the arteries. This influence, though it does exist in animals with cold blood, in reptiles particularly, is however much less manifest. I have made two incisions in the sides of the thorax of a frog, so that the lungs came out on each side; I then tied them where the vessels enter them; and the animal has notwithstanding lived a very long time, though all communication was destroyed between the brain and the pulmonary organ. If instead of tying the latter, they are entirely extirpated, the same phenomenon takes placei In fish, which differ essentially in the...