Researches physiological and pathological: instituted principally with a view to the improvement of medical and surgical practice / [Dr. Blundell].

  • Blundell, Dr., 1790-1878
Date:
1825
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Credit: Researches physiological and pathological: instituted principally with a view to the improvement of medical and surgical practice / [Dr. Blundell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J S PHYSIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 21. The third, a rabbit under the full size, of spare habit, was destroyed in nineteen hours, r i ■ « / with the most diffused and active peritonitis I ever saw in this animal. In this last rabbit I found small chrystals of urinary salt, scattered all over the peritoneum, from which the urine had been too negligently washed out* ♦ • j. ia ' c f 22. The fourth rabbit, also under the full size, recovered completely; and is now, twelve months after the experiment, large, fat, and to all appear¬ ance perfectly well. * ■ - v ■- » In seven experiments, I injected into the peri¬ toneal-sack, eleven drachms of the decoctum quercus, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; the rabbits were under the full size and spare. Of these rabbits, t ' ■ » ..... .. .. 23. One died in fifteen hours, with purging ; and, I think, a diffused peritonitis in the inci¬ pient state. The extractive of the bark-was found lying about in the peritoneum. The intes¬ tines were tympanitic. 24. 25, 26, 27, 28. Five others died, between twenty and thirty hours after the injection, ap¬ parently from the same cause : v ' •• * •* f * - w ^ . . . 4. 29. And one got completely well