 | Medicine - 1823 - 570 pages
...was observed by Bichat, (and, tl)e. observation has been confirmed by Brodie,) that the influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action .of the heart; for that, when the functions of the brain are destroyed, —even ivhen the. Ijead U removed,— -the... | |
 | Joseph Adams - Anatomists - 1818 - 278 pages
...system ; and that the secretions cease when deprived of the nervous influence. Respecting the first, (that the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart) though only Cruikshank and Bichat are mentioned, yet Mr. Brodie's experiment in proof of it, was only... | |
 | 1817 - 556 pages
...seeretions cease when deprived of the nervous influence, -.. ,, ; ,.., ., I; " Respecting the first, (that the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart) though ,only Cruikshank and Bieh/at ar« mentioned, yet Mr. Brodie's experiment in proof of it, was... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Materia medica - 1824 - 330 pages
...It was observed by Bichat, (and the observation has been confirmed by Brodie) that the influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart ; for that when the functions of the brain are destroyed, even when the head is removed, the heart... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 pages
...was observed by Bichdt, and the observation has been fully confirmed by Brodie, that the influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart ; and is immediately necessary to life, only because the muscles of respiration owe their action to its influence.... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1832 - 564 pages
...diffused to distant parts of the body. From the whole the author concludes, 1st. That the influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart. 2nd. That the interruption of the circulation is owing to the stoppage of respiration. 3rd. That when... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1832 - 550 pages
...diffused to distant parts of the body. From the whole the author concludes, 1st. That the influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart. 2nd. That the interruption of the circulation is owing to the stoppage of respiration. 3rd. That when... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 742 pages
...minute and a half afterwards, at the rate of one hundred times in a minute, from which it would seem that the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart, and that when that action ceases it is rather in consequence of the cessation of respiration, which is indeed under... | |
 | Thomas Winter - Floriculture - 1847 - 362 pages
...minute and a half afterwards, at the rate of one hundred times in the minute, from which it would seem that the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart, and when that action ceases, it is rather in consequence of the cessation of respiration, which is evident... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 700 pages
...is destroyed, the action of the heart only ceases because respiration is suspended ; in other words, that the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart, though the lungs are so to that action in the higher animals. And so, the circulation of the blood... | |
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When the brain is injured or removed, the action of the heart ceases, only because respiration is under its influence, and if, under these circumstances, respiration is artificially produced, the circulation will still continue. 
