An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs, with an appendix on the nature of the blood / [Tiberius Cavallo].

  • Tiberius Cavallo
Date:
1798
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Credit: An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs, with an appendix on the nature of the blood / [Tiberius Cavallo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afterwards breathing the common air in the ufual way. Tue hydrocarbonate, wz. that {pecies of inflammable gas which is produced by pafling the fteam of water over the furface of red hot charcoal, is much more perni- cious to the lungs. Animals will die much fooner in this than in the above-mentioned {pecies of inflammable gas. Sometimes two or three infpirations of pure hydrocar- bonate are fufficient to occafion the death of the animal. Tue active quality of this gas is per- ceivable even when diluted with 20 or 30 times its own bulk of common air. A perfon who breathes it in that diluted ftate for about a quarter of an hour, is ge- nerally made fick and vertiginous ; feeling at the fame time a fenfation of cold through- out his whole body ; his lips become blue, the face livid, and the pulfe feeble, though frequent ; but the fenfibility of the lungs is confiderably diminifhed by it, on which account