Transactions of the American Philosophical Society . D*luita\ No. XXXII. An Account of a Case of Disease, in which one side of theThorax was at rest, while the other performed the motions ofRespiration in the usual way. By C. Wistar, M. D.— 1814. THERE are no actions of the human body which appearmore completely associated with each other than those of theIntercostal Muscles, on the different sides of the simultaneous movements of the different ribs, and theregular dilatation of the Thorax, seem to depend upon thisassociation. The following stat
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society . D*luita\ No. XXXII. An Account of a Case of Disease, in which one side of theThorax was at rest, while the other performed the motions ofRespiration in the usual way. By C. Wistar, M. D.— 1814. THERE are no actions of the human body which appearmore completely associated with each other than those of theIntercostal Muscles, on the different sides of the simultaneous movements of the different ribs, and theregular dilatation of the Thorax, seem to depend upon thisassociation. The following statement will however evince, that the actionof the Intercostal Muscles, of one side of the Thorax, may becompletely suspended, while the muscles of the other sideperform their accustomed motions most perfectly. It als»affords a satisfactory explanation of this unusual occurrence. In the course of last summer a gentleman was attended, byDr. Monges and myself, for an Haemoptysis which occasionedhis death. During his indisposition, we observed that one sideof his
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