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the lungs to excite irritation, contradls no 



more-; it ceafes to beat. At the time, or 



foon after death, the extravafated blood is 

 not vifible through the fkin ; but when the 

 procefs of putrefadlion takes place, an intef- 

 tine commotion enfucs; an elaftic air, preff- 

 ing quaguaverfum, diftends the body ; the 

 ftagnant blood is rendered both thinner and 

 blacker ; it foaks through the cutis, is refufed 

 a paffage by the minute pores of the cUticIe, 

 and fpreading abroad, dyes ike rete mucofum 

 of a black colour. 



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