Experimentation on animals as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine / by J.C. Dalton.

  • Dalton, John Call, 1825-1889.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Experimentation on animals as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine / by J.C. Dalton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    • the first pair always full and always blowing into the lungs.'- Numerous incisions were at the same time made over the surface of the lungs, to allow of the escape of the air thus forced into them. By this method the lungs were kept motionless, but with a current of air steadily passing through them. As this experiment had the same results with the former, it was shown :— Fint, That life might be indefinitely pro- longed, under certain circumstances, by the alternate inflation and collapse of the lungs, in artificial respiration; and, Second, That this was effected, not by the simple movement of the parts, but by the con- tinued passage of air through the pulmonary channels. Artificial respiration has since been em- ployed, both for studying the action of the heart and vessels, and for resuscitating asphyx- iated animals. It was finally applied to the human subject, and is now a recognized means of preserving life in cases of drowning, hang- ing, asphyxia from breathing noxious gases,