lii INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 



or three years. An animal that can lofe Its 

 blood, its heart, or its brain, without immediate 

 death, and one that exhibits voluntary motions 

 after decapitation, nay, which will live thus a 

 year, and the head then grow to the place from 

 which it was taken. 



Socoloff remarks it as a fmgular circumftance, 

 that an infeft, immerfed in fpirit of wine a quar- 

 ter of an hour, will revive. He threw a number 

 of flies, that had been accidentally drowned, a- 

 mong wood-afiies, and was furprifed to find tlK^m 

 alive. He repeated the experiment, and the flies 

 revived. He had equal fuccefs with fome fmall 

 beetles. The experiment v/as repeated five times 

 within three hours on a fmall fpider, which fo 

 much v/eakened it at laft, that it could fcarce- 

 ly recover. Common bugs revived, but they 

 required to be longer among the wood-afhe^. 

 MilliDedes would nbt revive. Earth worms im- 



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merfed nineteen hours in oil, which is a fluid 

 mod deftruftive to all their race, revived when 

 Spallanzani put them in humid earth. Dr 

 Franklin affirms, that flies drowned in Madeira 

 revived after fix months. Mr Gough made a 

 number of experiments on drowned infefts. 

 None revived, if immerfed longer than two or 

 three minutes, except the nut-weevil, which was 

 ip brandy feventeen hours. He quotes infl:ances 



