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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    To ascertain the general Effects of Submerjion on living Animals. In the courfe of this inquiry* we propofe to afcertain the general effedts of fubmerlion on living animals, and to trace their con¬ nexion with the adtion of the water on the ° / The firft of thefe objedts may be obtained by attending to the different changes that take place in living animals while they are immerfed in water, and examining the ap¬ pearances of the internal parts when the body is taken out; and the fecond, by obfe rvmg the manner in which the water B is