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to feed on parsley, and directly afterwards, at three p.m. the par 

 vagura was divided as usual. Before six the breathing of one 

 of them became affected, and it made efforts to vomit, and died 

 before seven. At twelve at night the other was not apparently 

 affected, but was found dead in the morning. It eat some 

 parsley during the evening, which brought on efforts to vomit, 

 but which went off again. In the first rabbit the oesophagus 

 was full of bright-green parsley, and in the stomach it was of 

 the usual brownish tint and moist, with some little chyme. In the 

 second rabbit the parsley in the stomach was much more moist and 

 browUf and it had afar greater proportion of chyme attached to it. 

 The lungs in both were covered with dark-red spots, and the 

 stomach of the second had more redness than that of the first. 



Experiments 11 and 12. 

 The nerves were divided as usual in two young rabbits after 

 fasting twenty-four hours. They were then allowed to eat of 

 parsley, which they did heartily, and ran about afterwards in a 

 lively manner. Both were very soon attacked with efforts to 

 vomit, but one more severely so than the other. The first 

 rabbit breathed laboriously within half an hour after the opera- 

 tion, which was performed at three p.m., and it died before five. 

 The second rabbit was affected a quarter of an hour later, and 

 lived till eight. In the stomach of the first rabbit, which scarcely 

 lived two hours, the parsley was moist, and approaching to the 

 usual brown tint, but much less so than in those which had sur- 

 vived a longer period; and there was also a very small propor- 

 tion only of chyme. In the pyloric portion of the stomach there 

 was a small ball of dried and perfectly brown parsley, the 

 remnant evidently of a former meal, probably after all its nu- 

 tritious qualities had been dissolved; an appearance which I 

 understand is usually observed in the stomachs of rabbits after 

 the longest fasts. The contents of the second rabbit's stomach 

 were considerably more moistened, much browner, and enveloped 

 with more chyme than in the first rabbit, which scarcely lived 

 two hours. 



Experiment 13. 



A young rabbit was kept without food sixteen hours, and 



