...entrance of pure atmospheric air into the lungs ought not to be instantly succeeded by the free passage of blood from the right to the left side of the heart. The following experiment, mentioned by Bichat, and which I have frequently repeated, appears to nic...

...succeeds the extinct crepitus, and in this condition from the combined influence of retarded transmission of blood from the right to the left side of the heart, defective aeration of that which passes through, and a lesion of innervation, the patient often dies....

...animal being open and all the conditions for reanimation being most unfavourable, the mere passage of blood from the right to the left side of the heart is sufficient to reestablish the action of the left side ; that the left side thus reacting can throw...

...believing the great central fact of the disease to be, "that during the stage of collapse, the passage of blood from the right to the left side of the heart is in a greater or less degree impeded," places the contraction in the ultimate branches of the pulmonary...

...pulmonic system, and we arrive at a condition of things almost identical with the hypothetical " stoppage of blood from the right to the left side of the heart," which has been assumed as the cause of the collapse of cholera; and, indeed, upon the theory which...

...collect it, is that the symptoms of cholera are caused by an impediment which takes place in the passage of blood from the right to the left side of the heart, through the lungs ; and he believes that the blood in cholera contains a poison, the irritant action...

...was midwuy between the two. The lungs contained blood, and both cavities of tin heart olso. In fact, the column of blood from the right to the left side of the heart remains unbroken, while tnc pulmonary vessels and the cardiac cavities are under no undue tension....

...cyanosis wholly to apertures in the inter-auricular and inter-ventricular septa, and the consequent flow of blood from the right to the left side of the heart, have considered it an important part of the treatment to keep the patient reclining on the right side,...

...several. Sometimes wo fail because tho system is too fully charged with chloroform ; sometimes because the column of blood from the right to the left side of the heart is broken ; sometimes because the pulmonary vessels are contracted ; sometimes because there is coalescence...

...several. Sometimes we fail because the system is too fully charged with chloroform; sometimes because the column of blood from the right to the left side of the heart is broken; sometimes because the pulmonary vessels are contracted; sometimes because there is coalescence...