The nine circles of the hell of the innocent : described from the reports of the presiding spirits / compiled by G.M. Rhodes ; with preface by Frances Power Cobbe.

  • Rhodes, G. M.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The nine circles of the hell of the innocent : described from the reports of the presiding spirits / compiled by G.M. Rhodes ; with preface by Frances Power Cobbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XU. medical memorialists insisted that most important researches would be stoj)]ped unless the clause were nullihed. Of these certificates dispensing with anaesthetics, there were granted according to the Returns of the Inspector for 1890 no less than 00 ; and 796 experiments are registered as performed under them. The following are classes of experiments which cannot possibly be carried out to their conclusions under anaesthetics, though some of them may he performed under them so far as the initial operation only :— 1. Those which concern the reflex action of the sensory and vasomotor nerves. 2. Those which concern the Glandular Secretions. 3. Those which concern the Liver and Gall-bladder. 4. Many of those which concern the Digestion. 5. Many of those which concern the blood Circulation and the Heart. 6. Toxicological Experiments (poisoning); including stif- fening a dog “ like a piece of wood.” 7. Starving to death, and feeding with noxious substances. 8. Baking and roasting to death. 9. Boiling to death, or injecting boiling water into the stomach, 10. Experiments which (like Mautegazza’s and Chauveau’s) have the production and measurement of Pain as their direct object. 11. Those which concern resjjiration. 12. Varnishing, and coating with plaster-of-Paris. 13. Bleeding to death. 14. Those which concern the Muscles. 15. Insertion of Broken glass into cars, muscles, intestines, &c.