- 'mthe Living System, iJ 



iytlc, in' ^26' ittinutes convulsed : after 40 

 minutes, voluntary niolion had ceased : after an 

 hour and ten minutes it was dead and the irri- 

 tability in all the muscles was deUroyed. 



(1) 'Experiment 8. 

 Tliirty drops were injected into another frog^ 

 after the removal of the heart ; it lived an hour 

 and 15 minutes, and after death the irritability 

 Wfis exhausted, 



(m) Experiment 9. 



Twenty drops were injected into a third : It 

 lived an hour and twelve minutes, and the 

 state of irritability was the same as in . the 

 preceding. 



Does the quantity of Opium sufficient to occa- 

 sion Death, effect this by viducing a Change 

 in the tondition of the Blood ? 



(n) Experiment 10. 



By some former experiments No. 17 & 35 (oj 

 it had been found that 33 drops of the solution 



x)f opiunt injected into the jugular vein of*^ 

 ' ' ) ' ' 



rO Vid. Inaug. Dissert; p. 29. Exp. 21. 

 (m) Vid. p. 30. Exp. 22. 

 r»; Vid. p. 74. Exp. 46. 

 (o) Vid. p. 20 & 65. . 



