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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    precifely the fame fymptoms which fol- low the injection of opium into the heart, when it pafses along the aorta. On examining the {late of the mufcles after death, in the fir ft four frogs, their irritability was found much impaired. I either did not examine the ftate of the mufcles, after death, in the other two frogs, on which the experiment was made at a different time, or negle&edto take notice of it in my notes. The frogs ufed in this experiment were of different fizes; two of the firft four were full grown. From thefe experiments, then, it ap- ' pears, that opium, applied to the heart, is not capable of affedting any diftant part, through