DEATH. 
cation, &c, They easel = ies the lofs of fenfation and 
vo oluatary motion, toget ha eeffation of ees 
and of the heart’s | are ars no means fur ications 
of death; that the powers of life ftill exift ace thefe cir- 
<nmmiances: and ole - again called into aGion me 
ploy ment of proper means; and that fuch cafes are, there- 
fore, well defcribed i. he. term of i sleatiau sip 
A warm-blooded animal never continues to exit exter- 
nally after its eal life has ceafed ; fo ce the ceffation 
of the organic P ienemena is a fure fign of general death. 
We can, indee ide on the rea! ity 0 fuch death only 
the fufpenfion of the external func- 
ways an ee ign. 
is difference in t e termination of the two lives arifes 
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Whe yt iy one ceafes to aét, the others muft like- 
wife be arrefted; se as and are the three centres, in which 
all the fecondary phenomena of the two lives terminate, 
thefe phenomena ae es inevitably annihilated, and general 
death enfve 
Phyfiologitts of all ages nae recognized the importance of 
this triple centre ; and have almoh univerfally bettowed the 
name of vital fandlions on ee which refide here: becauf 
lite is immediately connected with them, while its relations 
to the proceffles, ranged under the heads of natural and 
animal funétions, are much lefs intimate. 
ee _ dden eae mutt begin by the interruption of cir- 
culati refpiration, or the a€tion of the brain ne 
thele oe pendtions Rops firft, and the others dersipate 
fucceflivel The feries of phenomena ic 
thefe cafes, “has been admirably developed in the 
ches phytiolog’ a fur la vie et a ’ of is We 
fhall 
the enen| pciien which he draws from 
Dee beginnin, ng 4 in head heart : oe in the rupture 
of an aneuri{m, wound of th art, or large blood- 
veff-le, &c. For ay of the excision, which the brain 
receives from the heart, its a€tion ftops; and confequentiy 
fenfation, locomotion, and the voice, are fameticiely intere 
ae Befi ie the organs of thefe fundtions would ceafe 
o act, for w the excitement derived from the blocd, 
ert its influence. The ca 
t xifts n 5 eae for furrounding objeéts af- 
‘the inftant 19 which his heart is dead. he: interruption 
of the organic a ons, which has ealeiaaa with the 
circulation, goes at the fame time ede 
When the brain a "ceafed to act, there are no lon 
mechanical phenomena exhibited in the Jun ngs ; fince at 
iaph cans and intercoftal mufcles are under its influence, 
he chem phenomena ceafe alfo, when the heart no 
longer receives or se the giana , oe their de- 
velopement. eral death then comes in a gradual 
we by the te of the ee ae: eet and 
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Death bagioning j in the Lungs.—When the mechanical phe- 
Nomena of t ungs are interrupted, the following is the 
Series in chick the other funétions ceafe. 1. Interruption 
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And of the capillary circulation, fecretion, abforption, 
and exhalation, for want of the influence of red blood on the 
organs of thofe fandion ns. 7. Interruption of digettion, 
through the want of fecretion, and through the non-excita- 
ath occur in a different fucceffion, 
as in animals placed in vacuo, in ftrangulation, io drowning, 
and in breathing nonsrefpirable g ales. 
1. Interruption of chemical phenomena. 2. Sufpenfion 
the brain’s a€tion, 3. Ceffation sada locomotion 
mechanical phenomena of r A 
. Stoppage of the action of the ie and a the Sorel 
circulation. 5+ Termination of the capillary circulation, 
fecretion, exhalation, abforption i 
eftion, 6. Diffipation of the animal | 
from all the fun€ticns, and which does not leave the body till 
they have all ceafed. "Tn whatever function death may begin, 
it is always by this that it ends. 
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—t. Annihilation of the 
ation ¢ ccflation of fenfation 
voluntary moti 3. Paraiyfis of the diaphragm and inter- 
coftal m a. x oan of the 
mena of refpiration: 5. And of 
mena. 6, Admiffion “4 ‘black blood into the fyitem which 
fhould convey red bioo : 
rom the contact of th ica with the heart and arteriess 
and by the abfolute imoby of all the se and parti~ 
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calady of the che ‘ of the heart, and c effatio 
ee circulation. 9. on ruption ae ek ae 
e {pecially in sis ui plea with red blood. 10. 
Aboiition of animal heat. 
Although in ae three kinds of death, which we have 
jul a the functions may be annihilated fuddenly, yet 
fome of the te ae aul remain in the parts for a cer- 
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properties is nearly the fame in ali-cafes; the only 
caufe which gives rife to any difference, is the more or lefs 
gradual mode in which life has been extinguifhed. In pro- 
portion to the rapidity of the death, is the contradtility 
energetic, and flow in difappearing, Where the funions 
have been gradually extinguithed, this. alee is fo much 
the lefs fufceptible of being a ght into a 
encval Defeription of Death.—The ufe of t e hands, 
d feet ne ae is coeds in old nae fome time 
the ienfes fail; the boweis are torpi 
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former veficls. The blood then deferis the feet, which 
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