An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the medal.

  • Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.
Date:
1788
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Credit: An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the medal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1^7 ] p.nd unequivocal manner ? And are we not juftified in prefuming, that if it is able fo powerfully to excite the adlion of the ex- ternal mufcles, that it w'ill be capable of reproducing the motion of the heart, which is infinitely more irritable, and by that means accomplhh our great defidera- tum, the renewal of the circulation ? The part which, in my experiments on drowned animals, I found to be the mofl readily excited to a(5lion, was the dia- phragm 5 and although the fhocks were direded fo as to pafs through the auricles of the heart, confequently much above that mufcle, yet it was always brought into great contradions: and the part which re- tained its irritability the longed, I found to be, in feveral inftances, the mufcles fitu- ated about the glottis. The periftaltic motion of the intefiines feemed to be little affeded by eledricity, either as to in- creafing it, or reproducing it when it had ceafed : and the only perceptible effed that attended paifing fhocks through the