Observations and experiments on the mode in which various poisonous agents act on the animal body / by James Blake.

  • Blake, James, 1814-1893.
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[1840]
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    OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON THE MODE IN WHICH VARIOUS POISONOUS AGENTS ACT ON THE ANIMAL BODY. By Mr JAMES BLAKE. (From the Fdin. Med, and Surg, Journal, No. 142. J The subject of the following researches is one, the importance of which is fully attested by the attention it has received from physiologists. The action of poisons on organized beings has always been considered as a valuable means for elucidating some of the more important phenomena they present; and the facilities which this class of substances affords us of destroying or modify- ing some of the more complex functions of animals, renders them valuable agents in attempting an analysis of these functions. These circumstances have invested with so much interest the question as to the manner in which poisons produce their effects; and although many researches have been undertaken with the view of elucidating this question, the conflicting opinions still entertained on this point, afford sufficient proof that much still remains to be discovered in this branch of physiology. Of the many opinions that have been entertained on the man- ner in which poisons produce their effects, there are only two which it is now necessary to notice, as they express the views of by far the greater number of physiologists of the present day.*