An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions : with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases / by A.P. Wilson Philip ... ; in part re-published, by permission of the president of the Royal Society, from the Philosophical Transactions of 1815 & 1817, with the report of the National Institute of France on the experiments of M. Le Gallois.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1818
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    AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY, THE following Treatise is divided into two Parts. In the first Part I shall make the reader acquainted with the state of our knowledge respecting the principle on which the action of the heart and blood vessels depends, and the relation which subsists between them and the nervous system, at the time my experiments were begun; as on this, all our knowledge of the vital functions more or less immediately de- pends. In the second, I shall relate these ex- periments, and point out the inferences to which they seem to lead. PART I. Of the state of our knowledge respecting the principle on which the action of the heart and blood vessels depends, and the relation which subsists between them and the nervous system. The object of this Part cannot I think be better accomplished than by laying before the