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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    2°, The cavity of the lungs contains a confiderable quantity of frothy fluid • and the pulmonary arteries and veins are filled with black blood throughout their whole extent. 30, The right auricle and ventricle of the heart are fall contracting and dilating; i' the left finus venofus and auricle move feebly; but the left ventricle is at reft. % 4°, The right auricle and.ventricle are filled with black blood* and the left finus venofus and left auricle alfo; but the left ventricle is only about half filled with the fame-coloured blood. 5°, The trunks and fmaller branches of the arteries proceeding from the left ven¬ tricle* contain a quantity of this black blood alfo.