A manual of the physiology of man, or, a concise description of the phenomena of his organization / Philippe Hutin ; translated from the French.

  • Hutin, Philippe, 1802-1880.
Date:
1828
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    Uiing will occur, but in a different manner, if the lungs or the heart chance to be obstructed in their functions. In the first case sanguification incomplete, or even interrupted, will only prepare for the organs a cold and impoverished aliment, which soon proves insuffi- cient to stimulate the action of the nervous centres ; in the second case, if the heart be the sufferer, the langour and obstruction of the action of thisviscus will produce similar effects on the nervous foci, and on those of life, &c. In a word, there is nothing in accidental death that cannot most readily be accounted for. Natural death, at a first glance, appears more extraor- dinary, and more difficult to explain ; we shall see that it occurs by a progressive decrease of the four funda- mental functions of life. In the last moments 'of de- crepitude, appetite, which every day loses some of its activity, entirely ceases, or nearly so ; the small portion of food which reaches the digestive tube, is but ^owly and imperfectly digested, and a very small pro- portion of chyle, imperfectly animalized, is with great difficulty conveyed with the venous blood to the lungs ; these organs, in which the ossified aerial lubes are fre- quently contracted, have lost a great part of their vascu- larity by the obliteration of their capillary vessels (as may be observed in the placenta, gradually as the moment at which the child is to enjoy a new life approaches,) and by a iiatural consequence of these changes hama-