Project Gutenberg 2014-11-07 Public domain in the USA. 133 Monro, Alexander 1733 1817 Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity Produced by Giovanni Fini and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances" by Alexander Monro is a scientific publication written during the late 18th century. The book presents a detailed examination of the effects of opium and various metalline substances on the nervous system, particularly through the lens of animal electricity. Monro's work dives into the intricate relationship between nervous functions and the response elicited by chemical and electrical stimuli. In this work, Monro conducts a series of experiments primarily on frogs and other animals, exploring how opium and different metals affect their nervous systems. He details methods of injecting opium into the subjects and observes resulting convulsions, heart rate alterations, and changes in muscle response. The experiments show that while opium produces paralysis and a decline in muscle responsiveness, the application of metallic substances leads to convulsions in the limbs, providing insight into the nature of animal electricity. Monro's conclusions suggest significant distinctions between nervous energy and electrical phenomena, contributing valuable knowledge to the fields of physiology and neurobiology. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 48.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Electrophysiology -- Early works to 1800 Nervous system -- Experiments -- Early works to 1800 Frogs -- Physiology QP Text Category: Science - Biology Category: Health & Medicine 81093 2025-09-19T06:07:49.813139 text/html 57974 2024-10-24T12:09:44 text/html 61406 2025-09-19T06:07:52.224129 application/epub+zip 59554 2025-09-19T06:07:50.364141 application/epub+zip 59555 2025-09-19T06:07:50.080144 application/epub+zip 110755 2025-09-19T06:07:53.835136 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91272 2025-09-19T06:07:51.939158 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91510 2022-09-21T13:28:53.414614 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 61198 2025-09-19T06:07:49.622177 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 41222 2024-10-24T12:09:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16830 2025-09-19T06:07:53.957151 application/rdf+xml 17807 2025-09-19T06:07:50.141179 image/jpeg 2950 2025-09-19T06:07:50.112135 image/jpeg 52267 2025-09-19T06:07:49.821153 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia