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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    it out again at the trachea: but this ink is fo intimately combined with the mucus of the lungs by the agitation of the thorax, that we cannot colled: it in a feparate ftate. If, howrever* we employ fuch fluids in thefe * experiments as have no difpafltion to unite with the pulmonary mucus, they will re¬ main in the lungs in a feparate ftate, not- withftanding the agitation of the thorax* and may be in a great meafure collected again. i ~~ * Experiment III. I filled a final! glafs bell with quick- filver* and immerfed a cat in it* in the fame manner as in the other experiments. When the body was taken out* I found half an ounce of quickfilver (a) in the / cavity fie) In weight*