Some new hints, relative to the recovery of persons drowned with a view to render that practice more generally successful / by John Fuller.

Date:
1784
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Credit: Some new hints, relative to the recovery of persons drowned with a view to render that practice more generally successful / by John Fuller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ( «3 ) time after the circulation of the bkxxl has ccafed, than in any other part of the body; and that from its being an entire mufcular organ originally intended for contradion, the fpeedy irritation of it in the grand work of rcfuicitation, becomes an objed of the firft importance, as the contradion of the heart always has been the ultimate objed to which all the various methods hitherto tried for reftoring fufpended animation have been direded, bccaufe until that efFed is produced, refpiration, and every other fundion of the animal economy, muft re- main inadive. 4. That the more remote from the heart, the vital principle will be found to fubfill in Icfs force than in thofe parts more nearly fituatcd to it. 5. That