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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    where the heart has only one auricle and ventricle, where the pulmonary artery is a fmall If the term be intended to exprefs a mechanical caufe, to affert that the motion of the lungs in refpi- ration keeps up the natural contractions of the heart mechanically, the affertlon is notfupported by faCts: for, if it were fo, the motion of the lungs would be alone fufficient to keep up the contractions of the heart, and any kind of aerial fluid would be then equally effectual in refpiration ; and whenever the motion of the lungs ceafed for a while, the con¬ tractions of the heart would always ceafe alfo: hut there are feveral kinds of aerial fluids which are not fufficient for the purpofes of refpiration ; for when animals breathe them feparately, the contractions of the heart ceafe, even while the refpiration continues j and when the amphibious animals are immerfed in water, the motion of the lungs ceafes, yet the natural contractions of the heart continue upwards of an hour afterward ; which could not happen, if the motion of the lungs occafioned thefe contractions But tnechanically