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Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity

Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817· 2 chapters· 5,175 words

instantaneously feels acute pain[6]; and it, in like manner, feels instantly great uneasiness when the Poison is mixed with its Blood[7]. We know for certain, that, through the medium of the Nerves, we are instantly rendered sensible of injury done to the most distant parts of...

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2. d. IN like manner, Animals were convulsed as soon as they were wounded,

e. AS soon as the distilled Water of Lauro-cerasus was poured into the Stomach of a Pigeon, it was convulsed, died instantly[9], that is, before the Poison could have entered th...

1. c. HE acknowledges that an Animal bit in its Leg by a Viper,

instantaneously feels acute pain[6]; and it, in like manner, feels instantly great uneasiness when the Poison is mixed with its Blood[7]. We know for certain, that, through the...