Excerpt from Philadelphia Medical Times, Vol. 8: A Bi-Weekly Journal of Medical and Surgical Science; April 27, 1878 The lungs and kidneys are intensely con gested. As a rule, there is no lesion of the stomach, except congestion of the gastro enteric mucous membrane. The heart is always found in a state of extreme diastole, which is so marked that it is difficult to lift the pericardium from the enclosed viscus. The right side of the heart is full of dark, venous blood, which shows little tendency to coagulate the general venous system is engorged. The contractility of the striated muscles is preserved. The temperature taken per rectum is generally reduced 3. 5 Degrees C. I have in all my experiments on warm blooded animals injected the poison into the jugular or some other large vein, ex cept in a few experiments which were made On the general action of the drug. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.