A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, & pathological, performed on living animals / by James Turner.

  • Turner, James.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, & pathological, performed on living animals / by James Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    dental good fortune, application, and a little tact, I should succeed in raising a few buried truths to the light of day, my inferences from those facts may be erroneous and worthless, and therefore it will be my policy to leav^e hypotheses for the spe- culation and risk of others. Remarks on Experiment I.—All physiologists of the present and of the last century with one accord have referred to the coagulating property of the blood as one of its most interesting attri- butes. They have always found, that upon blood being spilled from the vessels of a healthy animal, whe- ther from artery or vein, it has quickly assumed a solid fonn. When, actuated by the spirit of expe- rimental inquiry, they have imprisoned the blood of the living animal within the large trunks, either of arteries or veins, between two ligatures, and after the lapse of three or four hours, upon slitting them open, they have invariably found the blood coagulated, and of a dark colour (vide Hunter, Sir Astley Cooper, Majendie, and others). But when