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E, so that it may run over and moisten the linen cloth inside. An 

 expanded oloth seems to me much better adapted to promote evaporation 

 than the sponges now in use, for a sponge is more fitted to retain liqmdfl 

 that to promote the exhalation of vapours. 



Lime water may bo substituted for the common water in the vessel 

 \\\ when the carbonic acid in the expired air renders the liquor milky. 

 Whether the degree of decoloration produced will have any correspon- 

 dence with the degree of narcotism I have not tried, but it is worthy of 

 attention, as Dr. Prout's experiments on the effect of alcohol on the 

 quantity of carbonic acid exhaled, render such a result not impossible. 

 An apparatus of this kind might bo advantageously employed in many 

 logical experiments on respiration. 



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