Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / [By Charles Webster].

  • Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / [By Charles Webster]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * t 3 ] iieart9 or lungs: the heart of a young hot- blooded animal continues its motions for fome time after its connexion with the brain is cut off*; in phthifis pulmonalis there is fometimes fcarcely a veftige of lungs left; fome perfons have the power of fufpending the action of the heart +, and it is fometimes fufpended without the wil 1, while the other functions continue entire J. After decollation* it is faid, a viper tra« verfed feveral walks in a garden ; an oftrich continued running in a circular courfe leading to an accuftomed place of refuge; and a cock impulfively continued its motion towards fome grain that had been juft pre¬ fen ted to it; a turtle, whofe ftrength, con- fidering its mafiy ftieil, muft be very great, lives for months without the head §: foetufes have been bom alive without brain, cere¬ bellum, or fpinal marrow. In dropfy of the % * Whytt, Gregory* J Hunter. § Redi* B z head, Iv