An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases ... In part re-published ... from the Philosophical Transactions of 1815 and 1817, with the Report of the Institute of France on the experiments of M. Le Gallois [by F.H.A. von Humboldt, J.N. Hallé and P.F. Percy] And observations on that report / [Alexander Philip Wilson Philip].

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases ... In part re-published ... from the Philosophical Transactions of 1815 and 1817, with the Report of the Institute of France on the experiments of M. Le Gallois [by F.H.A. von Humboldt, J.N. Hallé and P.F. Percy] And observations on that report / [Alexander Philip Wilson Philip]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * disease. The author cannot help hoping that in those diseases in which the sensorial func¬ tions are entire, and the vessels healthy, and merely the function of secretion, which seems immediately to depend on the nervous power, is in fault, galvanism will often prove a valu¬ able means of relief. As soon as this view of the subject presented itself, he was led to inquire, what diseases de¬ pend on a failure of nervous power. The effect on the stomach and lungs, of dividing the eighth pair of nerves *, answered the question respect¬ ing two of the most important diseases of this class. The reader has seen, that withdraw¬ ing a considerable part of the nervous power from the stomach and lungs deranges the diges¬ tive powers, and produces great difficulty of breathing. When the effect of depriving the lungs of a considerable part of their nervous power is * carefully attended to, it will be found in all re¬ spects similar to a common disease, which may be called habitual asthma; in which the lungs are more or less clogged with phlegm and the breathing is constantly oppressed, better and worse at different times, but never free, and these symptoms often continue to increase in defiance of every means we can employ, till the * Exp. 48, 49.