An experimental essay, on the manner in which opium acts on the living animal body / By Alexander Philip Wilson.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An experimental essay, on the manner in which opium acts on the living animal body / By Alexander Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *57 ) Could be excited by irritating its eyes; the hinder-limbs were affedted with very violent trembling, and at times with ftrong fpafms, refembling thofe induced by opium. I have obferved this in a lefs degree in other inftances, when to- bacco was thrown into the inteftines of i the entire frog. The mufcles of the hinder-limbs of this frog were found, af- ter death, almoft quite void of irritabi- lity. ■**...* > As for the other, it retained all its motions for fifty-tree minutes after the folution was injedled; thofe of the fore- limbs as perfectly as thofe of the hinder 1 ones : its eyes moved, when irritated, nineteen minutes longer ; and its muf- 'des contracted after death with unufual force. All ■