Physiological observations on the pulsations of the heart, and on its diurnal revolution and excitability / by Dr. Knox.

  • Knox, Robert, 1791-1862.
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[1837?]
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    PHYSIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE PULSATIONS OF THE HEART, AND ON ITS DIURNAL REVOLUTION AND EXCITABILITY. By Dr KNOX. (Read before the Royal Society in Edinburgh.) {From the Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Jovrnnl, No. 131.) More than twenty-two years have elapsed since my attention was first turned to the physiological history of the pulsations of the human heart and arteries. The investigation was an experi- mental one, and led to conclusions which were deemed satis- factory by many physiologists, and even novel by some; a rare instance of good fortune in respect to them, since the experi- menter was still alive. A very extended criticism, favourable to a degree far beyond the merits of my original papers, appeared in a foreign journal, whose name I have in vain endeavoured to recollect; thus with- out a reference to it, it is impossible for me to say from recol- lection, whether the very candid author (a German) of that critique added much that was new to my discoveries, or con- tented himself merely with their verification; but this I do re- collect, that he considered the physiological conclusions as per- fectly legitimate. Dr EUiotson, whose name stands so deser- vedly high as a skilful practical physician and most learned writer, (merits so opposite in character and so difficult to attain) has honoured me with a passing notice in a foot-note to his first edition of a translation of Blumenbach's Physiology, and the opinion he there expresses is, that my doctrines of the pulse, if well founded, are totally subversive of the Cullenian doctrine of simple fever, and, (what I consider more worthy of attention,) opposed to the views of the great Hallcr. '