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nine, when I took it out of the folution, 
st was without motion: But, wien touch- 
ed with the point of a knife or probe, it 
performed one contraction, but with lefs 
vigour and more flowly than the heart of 
N° 14. Forty-feven minutes pait nine, it 
began to beat of its own accord. Two 
minutes after this, it moved 6 times in the 
minute, but much more feebly than N°14, 
Six minutes before ten, it beat only 4 times 
in a minute: After this, it began to beat 
much fafter ; but its motions foon return- 
ed to their former flownefs. At ten, af- 
ter having Jain near a minute without mo- 
tion, it began again, of its own accord, 
to beat at the rate of 17 times in the mi+ 
nute, and continued for eight or ten mi- 
nutes after this to beat very feebly, and 
in an irregular manner as to time. 
21. Mr Robert Ramfay ftudent of me- 
dicine in this place, having diflolved two 
fcruples of opium in an ounce of water 
and a dram of liquid laudanum, injected 
_ it blood warm into the inteftinum rectum 
of a very {mall dog near fix months old, 
In lefs than a minute after the injection 
was 
