"Thoracic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mouth of which is of such form that it can be plugged with a cork. . . . The phenomena as they present themselves in the dog. . . . First minute. Excessive respiratory movements in which at first the expansive efforts of the thoracic muscles, afterwards the expulsive efforts of the abdominal wall, are most violent. Towards the close of the first minute the animal becomes convulsed. Second minute. Early in the second minute the convulsions cease, often suddenly; simultaneously with the cessation the expiratory ...
— Great Testimony - against scientific cruelty • Stephen Coleridge |
