Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay : to which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks / by Charles Kite.

  • Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay : to which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks / by Charles Kite. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to this particular quality of the blood ; it having been obferved that when the blood which pafled into the left auricle was florid, the auricle and ventricle contradted ftrongly, but when the blood began to put on a lhade of brow'n the contrac- tions were diminiflied, and when it was black they ceafed, although the auricle was diftended with blood, and as the contradtions ceafed, the fundlions of the body were fufpended ; but as foon as the florid colour began to be reftored, the auricle and ventricle refumed their con- tradlions, and all the other fundtions re- ' turned. Applying thefe principles to animals in a ftate of fubmerfion, it is faid that the dephlogifticated air, which the animal has in its lungs, is gradually confumed, and confequently that the blood pafling through the pulmonary velfels receives lefs and lefs of its florid colour, and the con-