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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    drops of the fame folution, ufed in the laft experiment, into the cavity of the abdo- men, moving the tube, with which the injeaion was made, in various directions, that the folution might be applied as ge- I nerally as poffible. Little or none was re- i turned. ' - -l •- In thiee of tl\e frogs, the frequency of ■ heart’s motion was the fame after as . befoi e the injection of the folution; in the ■ 6t'ler Aree, it became lefs frequent about a minute after it. There is room for confiderable fallacy m this experiment. Cutting the heart ■ may render its contractions more fre- iquent than natural, and confequently their frequency will diminifh more ra- jpidly than when the heart is left entire. jBefides, I always obferved, that the ftrug- PeS °f the animalv increafing the fupply il