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in the great crural artery near the groin,**** 

 which place an affiftant held his finger on.|# * 

 mod part of the time ; but the languid pulfe 

 v/as quickly accelerated, To as to beat fait L.fcftffc 

 foon after I dilated the lungs much, by preftjjjf to 

 ling hard upon the bladder, efpecially when^f* 

 the motion of the lungs was promoted by 

 prcfling alternately the Abdomen and the 

 bladder, whereby both the contraction and 

 dilatation of the lungs was increafed. 



And I could by this means roufe the Ian-' "" 



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guid pulfe whenever I pleafed, not only at" 

 the end of every 5 minutes, when more ait** 

 was blown into the bladder from a man's 

 lungs, but alfo towards the end of the $'*** 

 minutes, when the air was fulleft of fumes. 



At the end of the hour, I intended to try 

 whether I could by the fame means haveifau 

 kept the Dog alive fome time longer, when 

 the bladder was filled with the fumes of bur- x ^n 

 ning Brimftone : But being obliged to ceafe^-^ 

 for a little time from preffing the air into 

 his lungs, while matters were preparing for 

 this additional Experiment, in the mean time , .. 

 the Dog dyed, which might otherwife have 

 lived longer, if I had continued to force the ^ 



air into his lungs.. 



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