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it appear quite certain, that they were at 

 all affeaed. 



{Tivo Trials). 



* When, indeed, after cutting oiat the 

 heart, 30 drops of the mixture were pour- 

 ed into the cavity of the abdomen ; after 

 half an hour, the animal could not, but 

 with the utmoft difficulty, remove its 

 body from the place where it lay. 



REMARKS. 



I. From the laft way of trying the ef- 

 fedt of ardent fpirits on the nerves, viz, 

 ■on thofe of the peritoneum, or fides of 

 the abdomen and abdominal vifccra, af- 

 ter cutting out the heart, we fee that the 

 ■whole nervous fyftcm can fuffer from 

 their touching one part of it ; but this 

 fufferance is by no means fo evident 01: 

 confiderable, as from the folution of opi^» 

 jum applied in like manner. And, 



S. As 



