Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de syncope / Jacobus Hare.

  • Hare James.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de syncope / Jacobus Hare. 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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    fumma opprelfam, ita ut non amplius audens fomno indulgere, cujus corpus confe&um multum indiguit, fed qui, fua ex fententia, lethalis foret, fratrem oraret, ut ei allideret fomnumque arceret. Frater allidens, digito bra- chium fororis tangente, fomnum accedere, et protinus re- fpirationem et pulfum fubfiftere, dein ea e fomno excitata renovari, fenfit. Periculum faepe fafhim, idem femper monllravit. Ille ingeniofus, qui hiltoriam memoriae pro- didit, eam ita explicat, 4 It feems probable, that, in great 4 debility, when the natural funttions are proportionably 4 impaired, the involuntary mufcles, which ferve to re- * fpiration, may be too weak to perform their office alone, 4 and may require the affillance of all thofe mufcles which 4 confpire in moving the thorax at the command of the 4 will. The aflion of thefe mufcles is very confpicu^us in 4 the agonies of death, when the vis vitae being quite ex- 4 haulled, the heaving of the brealt becomes entirely a 4 Voluntary motion. Thefe refle&ions led me to con- 4 clude, that the voluntary mufcles not afting during 4 fleep, and the involuntary ones being too weak to carry * on refpiration alone, a perfon under fuch circumftances 4 would ceafe to breathe, and confequently be in a ftate 4 of fuffocation ; but the pain and uneafmefs arifmg from