Excerpt from The London Medical Gazette, Vol. 2: Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences; For the Session 1837-38 Respiration, in ordinary cases of loss of blood, is only affected in conformity with the action of the heart. If this become slower, the breathing undergoes a corre spending change; but if the evacuation be carried so far as to induce syncope, or even an approach to it, respiration becomes very irregular, till at length it ceases alto gether. 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.