A letter on suspended animation, containing experiments shewing that it may be safely employed during operations on animals, with the view of ascertaining its probable utility in surgical operations on the human subject, addressed to T.A. Knight, Esq / [Henry Hill Hickman].

  • Hickman, Henry Hill, 1800-1830
Date:
1824
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Credit: A letter on suspended animation, containing experiments shewing that it may be safely employed during operations on animals, with the view of ascertaining its probable utility in surgical operations on the human subject, addressed to T.A. Knight, Esq / [Henry Hill Hickman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [11] stial recovered without having at any period shewn any material symptom of uneasiness. In this experiment animation was suspended daring seventeen minutes* allowing respira- tion occasionally to intervene by means of inflating instruments. Experiment 6th. A dog was rendered in- sensible by the means employed in experiment first* and an incision was made through the muscles of the loin, through which a ligature was passed* and made tight; no appearance whatever of suffering occurred upon the re- turn of animation, nor till the following day, when inflammation came on with subsequent suppuration. The ligature came away on the seventh day, and on the twelfth the wound was healed. As the recital of such experiments as those preceding must be as little agreeable to you* as the repetition of them has been to 'fg myself, 1 shall not give a detail of any others* but shall only state the opinions which the aggregate results have led me to entertain. I feel perfectly satisfied that any