Gil, CONFINED IN STAGNANT arr. 85 
_ It was to be fuppofed, that the fingular confe- 
‘quences of the experiment induced others to re- 
peat it; among whom was the celebrated Profef- 
for Veratti. His experiments were made on.birds 
- and frogs. A pigeon dived three hours and three 
quarters: two pigeons, confined together, lived 
only half the time. Three fwallows died in little 
more -than half an hour; two fwallows in lefs 
than an hour ; and:one lived almoft two hours. 
He obferved nearly the fame with fparrows and 
quails; three.died fooner than two, and two foon- 
er than one. But with frogs it was altogether 
_ different: in -eight days, four died as foon as 
two, and.one alone lived no longer than-three, 
though the veffel was always the fame. So that 
the experiments on birds were very different from 
“thofe of Piftorini; and the experiments on frogs 
agreed with his. And here is feen the different 
mature of animals in this mode of death. ‘Thus 
far Sig. Veratti (1). 
Sig. Cigna, a profeflor equally celebrated, has 
alfo engaged in an examination of thefe difcre- 
pancies, which he thinks to have removed by the 
accuracy of his experiments. ‘The refult is this: 
Where the frogs confined are deprived of water, 
as it would appear thofe of Veratti were, there it 
is true that the plurality never or feldom accele- 
yates death. When confined along with water, 
F 3 which 
q1) T. cit. 
