An experimental inquiry into the effects of tobacco fumes, on the system : and their use in cases of suspended animation, from submersion / by Daniel Legare.

  • Legare, Daniel, 1781-1854.
Date:
1805
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the effects of tobacco fumes, on the system : and their use in cases of suspended animation, from submersion / by Daniel Legare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lar attention was paid, in this, and the pre- ceding cases to the state of the arterial sys- tem, in general. In every instance, the ca- rotids were found, upon examination, to be but a little increased beyond their natural action. The mesentery, in this case, was so excessively inflamed, as to exhibit a scarlet-like appearance. This experiment was performed a second time, and attended with the same result. For our farther satisfaction, I will next proceed to make a few comparative experi- ments with water of the same, and a high- er temperature than that of the fumes which have been used. EXPERIMENT V. . At five o'clock, assisted by my friend and fellow graduate, Mr. Smith, the abdomen of a dog was laid open and the intestines exposed distinctly to view. The mesente- ric arteries were now beating one hundred c