 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1858 - 1096 pages
...separation of the brain. These experiments confirmed the observations of Mr. Cruikshank* and M. Bichat3 that the brain is not directly necessary to the action...the heart, and that when the functions of the brain are destroyed, the circulation ceases only in consequence of the suspension of respiration. This led... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 714 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... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - Medicine - 1865 - 798 pages
...From the whole it appears to me that we may deduce the following conclusions : 1. The influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart. 2. When the brain is injured or removed, the action of the heart ceases, only because respiration is... | |
 | Max Neuburger - 1897 - 578 pages
...inquiry into the laws of the vital functions. London 1818. 8) Phil, trans. 1811. „The influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart." „When the brain is injured of removed, the action of the heart ceases, only because respiration ii... | |
 | Max Neuburger - Brain - 1897 - 396 pages
...inquiry into the laws of the vital functions. London 1818. 8) Phil, trans. 1811. „The influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart." „When the brain is injured of removed, the action of the heart ceases, only because respiration is... | |
 | Albert Henry Buck - Medicine - 1920 - 394 pages
...with great precision and detailed with equal perspicuity, are the following : — 1. The influence of the brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart. 2. When the brain is injured or removed, the action of the heart ceases, only because respiration is... | |
 | Physics - 1811 - 540 pages
...confirmed by some experiments which I have lately had the honour of commumcating to this learned Society, that the brain is not directly necessary to the action...the heart, and that, when the functions of the brain are destroyed, the heart continues to contract for some time afterwards, and then ceases only in consequence... | |
 | Medicine - 1811 - 552 pages
...brain. These experimente confirmed the observations of Mr. CU.UIKMI.ANK.* and M . 1ÍICHAT4Í that live brain is not directly necessary to the action of the heart, and that when the functions of the brain are dcsiroyed, the circulation ceases only in consequence of the suspension of respiration. This led... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 960 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... | |
 | John Wakefield Francis - Medicine - 1823 - 604 pages
...animal heat, Mr. Brodie has shown, by a number of well-conducted experiments ; 1. That the influence of the brain is not directly necessary to. the action of the heart, for by means of artificial respiration the action of the heart was continued fora considerable length... | |
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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. 
