A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject to elucidate the approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill.
- Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
- Date:
- 1795
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject to elucidate the approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] 10. That fuffocation from noxious air deflroys life fooner than drowning, though the phenomena irr general are fnnilar, only in the former, the bo¬ dy remains more flexible, and retains its heat lon¬ ger—That in either cafe, the appearance of the lungs is uncertain; fometimes they feem coliapfed — fometimes, diliended—at others, quite natural— The brain alfo free from any fign of extravafa- tion. 11. That air is feffential to all breathing animals —that vital air is the only refpi'rable part of the atmofphere fit to fupport life or flame—that part of it is expired in form of carbonic air, and part retained in the fyftem. 12. That vital air changes the blood in its paf- fage through the lungs to a more florid colour— that the blood alternately contra&s impurities in its circulation, and is alternately purified by the procefs of refpiration. 13. That the heat of the human body preferves an even flandard in infancy and old age, under every variation of climate from the Equator to the Poles. 14. That it is principally, if not wholly depen¬ dent on refpiration and the oxygenation of the blood—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794559_0218.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
