The effects of venesection in renewing and increasing the heart's action under certain circumstances / by John Reid.

  • Reid John, 1809-1849.
Date:
[1836?]
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Credit: The effects of venesection in renewing and increasing the heart's action under certain circumstances / by John Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE EFFECTS OF VENESECTION rN RENEWING AND INCREASING THE HEART'S ACTION UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. By JOHN REID, M. D. Demonstrator of Anatomy, President of the Royal Physical and Medical Societies of Edinburgh. (From the Edinhiirgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 12^. J I HAVE observed in several experiments on the lower animals, that disgorging the right side of the heart, when its contractions are enfeebled or suspended, by opening the external jugular, has in some cases a decided effect in renewing its action, which I am convinced may be of considerable practical advantage in pro- moting the return of the circulation under certain circumstances. 1st Exper. While assisting my friend Mr Cormack in some experiments upon the physiological effects of Creosote, we found, on opening the thorax of a dog, into whose femoral vein 25 drops of creosote had been injected, immediately after it had ceased to breathe, that the heart was perfectly quiescent, and re- mained so even when pricked and cut superficially with a scal- pel. As the right side of the heart appeared much engorged, a small opening was made into the auricle, and part of the blood allowed to escape. As soon as the blood began to flow the heart