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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    I . • ( 22 ) . “ chiefly owing to their abforption, mix- “ ture, and conveyance with the blood; “ flnce they operate as violently, and “ nearly as foon, when the nerves of the “ part to which they are applied are cut,- “ as when they are entire. 9 “ If, again, they are applied to the. “ more fenfible inward fnrface of the “ primae viae, they may-probably bperate “ more fpeedilyf and in fome cafes more “ violently, through the nerves alone, “ than by their being abforbed, and con- “ veyed by the blood.” In another place he obferves, “ As the “ opium has a furprifing influence over “ the heart and arterious lyftem, when “ diredly applied to them, and thefe ef- at “ feds, though greater, are fimilar to the “ effeds of this medicine when abforbed. we