On Disorders of Digestion, Their Consequences (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...found full of fluid, while the portion on each side was completely empty. All three pieces having been equally empty at the commencement of the experiment, and all three having been placed under exactly the same conditions, we cannot attribute the copious secretion into the middle loop to any other cause than the action of the purgative injected into it. Moreau's experiments have been 1 Thiry, op. cit, p. 95. Schiff, Nuove ricerche ml pot ere dcgerenlt, &e. 11. Morgagni, July 18C7, p 5. 3 Iiaclzicjewski, op. cit., p. S5. 4 Moreau, Archiv Ginirolcs dc Midccinc, August 1870, p. 234. repeated by Vulpian,1 and I subjoin the notes of the results which I have obtained. Exp. I.--A cat was chloroformed, and an incision about 1 inches long made through the abdominal walls in the middle line about the umbilicus. A coil of small intestine was drawn out, and four ligatures tied tightly round it so as to isolate three loops of intestine. One-hundredth of a drop of croton oil mixed with one drop of alcohol was then injected into the second loop by means of an extremely fine Wood's syringe. (The quantity of croton oil was obtained by thoroughly mixing 1 part of oil and 99 of alcohol) The intestine was then replaced, the wound sewn up, and the animal allowed to recover from the chloroform. About four hours and a quarter afterwards it was instantly killed by a single blow on the head with a hammer, and the intestine examined: --Loop 1. Length 3 inches... Contained 7 minims of fluid. 2 1 J-20 H -- -rV M.. - 10 i, Exp. II.--A cat was operated on in the same way as the first, and T, -of a drop of croton oil with 10 drops of alcohol was injected into a loop of intestine which, as in the former case, lay between two others likewise isolated by ligatur..