An experimental inquiry into the nature, cause, and varieties of the arterial pulse : and into certain other properties of the larger arteries, in animals with warm blood. / by Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the nature, cause, and varieties of the arterial pulse : and into certain other properties of the larger arteries, in animals with warm blood. / by Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in circumference only of an inch ; being* thus reduced ^'^drhs. The femoral artery was also greatly shrunk in size ; but the degree wa» not ascertained by actual admeasurement. August 24, St p. m. The carotid artery was ag-ain measured, 21^- hours after the former admeasurement, and ex- actly in the same spot. It was now found to be in circumference of an inch, or to have gained, since thelast measurement, -^-^oianinch. The process of putrifaction having- begun in the abdomen and dissected thigh of this animal, there can be little reason to doubt that its deaths and consequently its loss of tonicity, was total and complete. EXPERIMENT XIV. September 4, 1815, 3| p. m. Present Dr. Charles Parry, Mr. George KiTSON, two of Mr. G. Norman's pupils, and myself. Mr. G. Norman exposed the right carotid of a Rabbit, t\^o thirds grown. The respirations were 72 in a minute; and when the head and neck were in a relaxed posture, it was very easy to distinsfuish the two different movements