92 On the Effects cj Opium 



Hours. •Mintrtei. 



sleep, but the eyes are open and 

 have lost their sensibility: pulse 

 so feeble that it can scarce be 

 numbered ; it may be about 240. 

 30. Pulse cannot be numbered. When 

 the animal, is struck he makes 

 feeble motions in the extrelinties, 



10. — The animal lies in the same state : 

 loud stertor ancl laborious respi- 

 ration. 



12. -r-r The animal appeared much the 

 same. 

 In the morning it was found dead, 

 being left in the above state at 

 bed-time.. 



EXPERIMENT 51. 



At the time w^hen the spirits of wine were 

 thrown into the stomach of the last rabbit, the 

 same quantity was throwr^ into the stomach of 

 another, equal in size ajnd age, but which had 

 pot been exposed to cold ; after ten minute^ 

 the animal was able to run about ; after fifteen 

 minutes its pulse beat 276. The animal was 

 then enfeebled and could not support itself: 

 after twenty minutes, it was prostrate like the 

 other. His pulse beat 288 y after 25 minutes 



