Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay : to which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks / by Charles Kite.

  • Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay : to which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks / by Charles Kite. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    coloured as the blood found In the left fide of the heart of an animal that was drowned j fo that the fame coloured blood killed one animal, although it fuf- fcred another of the fame fpecies to live very well. From thefe cafes and experiments It Is evident, 1. That in the inftances mentioned, and in many fimilar to them, the black colour of the blood muft depend on fome other circumftance befide the want of the adtion of the air. And, 2. That the black blood does poflefs a fufficiently ftimulating quality to excite the adion of all parts of the heart. From