The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn.

  • Goodwyn, Edmund, 1756-1829.
Date:
1788
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Credit: The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obferved of them, that they often blend hypothefis with fadt, and fometimes grafp at more than the mind can attain. After this time the ftudy of life was generally negledted : however, feme profef- fional men attempted to fearch for the diftindtion between life and death in the fenfible qualities of the body. Obfervations were collected, and feveral marks propofed to the world to determine this diftindtion [a): but fubfequent obfervation has fhown them to be infufficient; and, after much refearch and altercation, it is now generally allowed, that we have hitherto no other means to determine (a) Lettres fur la Certitude des Signes de la Mort, par Monf. Louis. DilTertatio an Mortis incerta iigna minus a chi- rurgicis quam ab aliis experimentis. Winslow.