2d. Of its producing the VITA1. FLAME. 3d. Its Connection with MuscULAR ACTION. 4th. Of the true Ufe and Nature of the PLACENTA. PAGE {FIXED AIR is abforbed by Water, 611 The Advantage to be derived from this Know ledge, ib. A remarkable Inftance of the fatal Effects of ib. Of the GROTTO DEL CANI, 612 The Ruffians and Germans are frequently ex pofed during their cold Seafon from the fAs soon as a Perfon with them is discovered to be deprived of Senfe and Motion, he is ftripped naked, and brought into the open Air; where he is rubbed with Snow, or cold Water is dafhed repeatedly over the Surface of his Body, This is the Practice of the common People throughout the North, and is constantly attended with fuccefs, where the Refpiration has not been fufpended above an Hour, {The different Theories on THIS SUBJECT, 513 614 ib. ib. SECT. SECT. L. OF ASPHYXIA FROM HANGING. As the fame Phænomena are exhibited in But with respect to the Effects of Hanging PAGE 616 ib. As a Difference in Theory cannot but influ ence Practice, it therefore demands the ib. It is obfervable, that in APOPLEXY the Irri- ib. { Whereas in DROWNING or HANGING the ani- In APOPLEXY, Refpiration, together with the In HANGING, or DROWNING, Refpiration is ib. ib. ib. {In apparent Death from APOPLEXY very few recover, and those few become Paralytic, ib. In vital Sufpenfion from DROWNING OF HANGING, many are restored, and yet no In a Word, the two Cafes, upon the firft View of Things, appear totally different, and to require a very different Mode of In the Latter copious Bleeding affords the principal Relief; in the Former, it general- ly proves highly injurious, - ib. {MR. COLEMAN'S INGENIOUS EXPERIMENT, 618 1ft. Where the Wind-pipe of a Dog was se- cured juft at the Inftant of Infpiration. 2d. Where the Carotids were fecured, and In both thefe Experiments the Animals died as {In This clearly demonftrates, that Death in ib. 1. Obftructed Circulation in the LUNGS, or The Cord being now shifted below the Open- ing into the Wind-pipe, so as to intercept the Ingrefs of Air into the Lungs, the Animal was completely dead in a few Mi- Hence it follows, that the proximate Caufe of ib. ib. { The Plan of Treatment is therefore the fame ib. Thefe Appearances denote a great Analogy {Sir ISAAC NEWTON's Suppofition on this Head, When the DANGER is INEVITABLE. 1. Cold Sweats fucceed. 2. The Hair of the Body droops. 3. The Eyes become dim. 4. The Surface flaccid, cold, and pale; 5. The Perfon finks down inanimate, PAGE This Train of Symptoms may admit of fome 6:0 ib. 621 Mr. HUNTER took Blood from a Lady which was of a dark Colour, ib. The Lady fainted, and as fhe continued in that State the Colour of the Blood that came from the Vein was of a bright Scarlet, ib. Mr. HEWSON obferves, that often in Bleeding the first Cup fhall have florid Blood, the fecond black Blood, and the third florid or crimson again, He obferves also that in Animals who are bled to Death, the Blood becomes brighter in proportion as they become faint, and it coagulates the more, ib. 622 |