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_ but the intercoftal mufcles attached to the 
ribs on the fides of the thorax were not 
obferved to move, nor did the diaphragm 
make any motion when its fibres were 
_ pricked or cut. 
NotTHinG remarkable was feen in the 
abdomen; ‘only, altho’ it was opened ten 
minutes after making the injection, the in- 
_teftines had’no motion; whereas, in ano- 
_ther young dog, which had got no opium, 
Mr Ramfay obferved: the periftaltic mo- 
tion continue half an hour after See iti 
| open the thorax. 
THE dog loft little or no blood in ma- 
ding the wound into his abdomen, nor 
were any of his bowels hurt by it. 
*23. A fmall dog into whofe ftomach 
the late celebrated’: Dr Mead had: forced, 
at four diferent times, a folution of two 
drams of opium in water, lived above an 
hour and three quarters after getting the 
‘firft dofe. Vid. Treatife on poifons, Eflay 
Vox. Ii, Meas f 24. IT 
