Dissertatio medica inauguralis de respiratione difficili / quam ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Govan, Scotus, chirurgus.

  • Govan, George.
Date:
1808
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    i “ If we consider the effects arising from “ this construction of valves merely on me- “ chanical principles, we cannot account for “ the darkness of the arterial blood, which “ must have passed through the lungs when “ there was no mechanical interruption to “ respiration ; but since it happens, that when “ the heart either ceases to act, or cannot ^ get rid of its blood, (which must have been <c the case in the present instance), respira- cc tion ceases, or is performed so imperfectly “ as to have nearly the same effect; the per- u son is in reality in a state of suffocation*.” A his, functionem respirationis imperfec- tam, ab actionis cordis imperfectione fieri, ostendere vult. Sed si soluinmodo a sangui¬ nis accumulatione ad rationem hujus redden- dam tentamus, faciei lividitas ab aliis causis '* Hunter.