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REMARKS. 



I. Although, for the mofl: part, a 

 man who is drunk is not quite infenfible, 

 nor motionlefs, nor is his refpiration in- 

 terrupted, nor does his blcod, perhaps, 

 ceafe intirciy from circulation in the fmall 

 veflels ; fince, notwithftanding the pale- 

 nefs of the flcin in fome cafes, and that I 

 have obferved his pulfe become very fee- 

 ble and intermitting, if a vein is ftruck, a 

 confiderable quantity of blood may be 

 drawn from it 5 yet it is not improbable, 

 that a perfon, by drinking an excefiive 

 quantity of fpirits, may reduce himfelf 

 to a ftate like to what has been above de- 

 fcribed in the frog, and notwithftanding 

 recover. 



2. \Vf. find that ardent fpirits are not fo 

 altered by theabforbent veffels of animals « 

 as to lofe their tafte or fmell. And there 

 is fome reafon to fuppofe, that the fpirits 

 JefTened the fluidity of the blood by their 

 mixture with it, whilft they, at the fame 



time^ 



