An experimental enquiry into the effects produced by hydrocyanic acid upon animal life, with an aattempt to determine the real value of presumed antidotes and remedies.

  • Nunneley, Thomas, 1809-1870.
Date:
1847
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Credit: An experimental enquiry into the effects produced by hydrocyanic acid upon animal life, with an aattempt to determine the real value of presumed antidotes and remedies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into vagina; sire became rigid, and lay with little sign of life; in four minutes, began to breathe slowly and deeply; strong liquoi ammonia; held to the nostrils ; respiration more rapid, with ngidity ; in seven minutes gave twenty minims of liquor ammonise in two drachms of water; nine minutes, heart ceased to beat, thcie being no other sign of life after seven minutes; pupils were not exces- sively dilated nor eyes very prominent or red; no howling. No. 21.—Rough-haired otter dog, rather less than No. 19. Introduced fifteen minims of acid into the rectum: he ran about, hind legs soon became weak; staggered and fell in one minute; howled, but not so much as No. 19; respiration very hurried; tongue pro- truded ; mouth open and red; after two minutes limbs ceased to be rigid; heart ceased to pulsate in six minutes; gave no indication of feeling when pricked by pins. No. 22.—Mongrel dog, same size as No. 40. Gave six minims of acid in one drachm of water, by the rectum: he ran about as though nothing had happened; in two minutes fell, tried hard to get up again; whined, and moaned as though distressed from weakness but not in pain; sooner and more affected in the hind legs than in the fore legs ; three minutes, pupils excessively dilated; twenty-five minutes, breath smells of the acid; thirty-five minutes, strabismus; thirty-seven minutes, slight convulsions, urine expelled and heart immediately ceased to beat. This dog continued to breathe freely until just before his death, and appeared to be improving; he was not sensible, and appeared to be in deep sleep, with the limbs powerless. I thought he would recover. He was not an old dog. No. 23.—A very strong bull-terrier bitch (suckling). Cut a portion of the skin of the size of a sixpence out of the middle of the back, by means of a pair of sharp strong scissors; wound scarcely bled; dropped into it two minims of strong acid, equal to ten minims of Scheele’s: in two minutes and a-half she passed urine, but was in no other manner affected; ran and jumped about, very pleased to be noticed; eighteen minutes, put into the wound two minims more of the strong acid, without the least effect, (she paid not the smallest attention to the wound, as though it were not felt;) thirty minutes after put upon the tongue