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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    minute. Upon examining the intestines, I could not perceive the least motion within them. Finding no alteration in forty-five minutes, an injection of water was exhibit- ed, per anum, at the temperature of sixty- five degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer ; in fifty minutes the pulse was raised to se- venty-four ; in sixty it fell to seventy. An injection of water of the same temperature was now administered; in sixty-five, to six- ty two : finding no increase of it in seventy minutes, the injection of water was again repeated; in seventy-five minutes, perceiv- ing no pulsations of the arteries, I declined continuing the experiment. Having, by the foregoing experiments, made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the effects of the fumes upon the living system in its healthy state, it only remains for us to enquire into their power as a re- suscitant in cases of submersion. But pre- vious thereto, an experiment or two will be necessary to instruct us how far they are capable of affe&ing the system in such a condition.