Essay on the use of alcoholic liquors in health and disease / by John Chadwick.
- Chadwick John.
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essay on the use of alcoholic liquors in health and disease / by John Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![death, beginning at the lungs.” It is essential to the discharge of the function of every part of the animal body, that ever)^ part should he supplied with arterial or oxygenated blood. This supply is cut off by suffocation, as effectually as if the animal were hied to death. For it has been established by the researches of Dr. Kay Shuttleworth, of Dr. Williams, and of Dr. Alison, that when respiration ceases, the blood ceases to pass through the lungs; and that it accumulates in those organs, in the right-side of the heart, in the veins, and by conse- quence, in the brain and in the abdominal viscera. Examination after death shews that the lungs are gorged with black blood ; also, the right-side of the heart, the large veins, the liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach, and bow^els. Dr. Ogston says, “ the eyes are ])rominent, the jmpils dilated, the face swollen or livid, the lips blue, the cellular tissue vascular, its blood fluid and dark, redness in the air-passages, the lungs dilated, and an accumulation of dark fluid blood, along with more or less of a frothy mucus in their substance. The right cavities of the heart, the venae cavce, and the pulmonary artery, filled with blood of the same character, with its presence, but in less quantity, in the left ventricle, coronary veins, and aorta, while the liver and kidneys contain in considerable quantity the same dark fluid, which is best shewn on squeezing them in the hands.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21727818_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
