The object of the function of respiration is to supply the animal with oxygen and to remove carbon dioxide. To attain this object the vertebrates are provided with a complicated mechanism of which the respiratory movements are an essential feature. The respiration appears as a continuous chain of rhythmically recurring cycles, each cycle consisting of two antagonistic movements, one which carri...

a horizontal position in order to prevent syncope, and his face bathed in cold water. If convulsions come on cold should be applied. If asphyxia is present flagellation, massage and artificial respiration are resorted to, and if the respiration depends upon the tetanic contraction of the respiratory muscles inhalations of chloroform are employed. For the intense pallor it is well to give inhala...

Cobra venom consists of a neurotoxin which is responsible for respiratory paralysis simulating that associated with a non-depolarizing muscle relaxant. A combination of artificial respiration and neostigmine has been useful in resuscitating a child bitten by a snake.

space near the mid-axillary line. The pleural cavity was exposed. Air was rushing in and out with respiration, with a peculiar hissing sound, and the dome of the diaphragm and the lower margin of the lung were seen moving up and down with expiration and inspiration. There was no subcutaneous emphysema. No blood could be seen in the pleural cavity. The margins of the wound were freely excised in...