Inaugural dissertation on the presence of air in the organs of circulation : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation, by authority of the Very Rev. Principal Baird, and with the sanction of the Senatus Academicus / by John Rose Cormack.

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1837
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Credit: Inaugural dissertation on the presence of air in the organs of circulation : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation, by authority of the Very Rev. Principal Baird, and with the sanction of the Senatus Academicus / by John Rose Cormack. 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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    CONTENTS. Page Introduction, 1 % CHAPTER 1. Examination of the Physiological Changes which take place in those Cases in which Death is the almost immediate result of the Admission of Air,. 3 CHAPTER II. Circumstances which Modify the Effects. Observations on Cases in which Death did not take place, or was a secondary result, 22 CHAPTER HI. On the Cause of the Entrance of Air into Veins divided during operations ; with some Considerations on the Means most likely to Avert Death in such cases 32 CHAPTER IV. Remarks upon the Generation of Air in the Living Body, especially in the Blood Vessels, with Observations on the Consequences which may result from its presence there,... 40