On the Effe^s of Terra Ponderofa. 6 1 3 



her limbs and even incapable of removing her 

 head from one pofition to another, fo abfohitely 

 was all mufcular power relaxed, that upon tak- 

 ing hold of the loofe fkin of her neck and after- 

 wards relinquifhing the grafp, it retained the 

 pofition into which it had been forced ; her eyes 

 however were ftill moveable, -her breathing was 

 tolerably eafy, and fhe did not give any figns 

 of acute pain. From feven to eight o'clock, the 

 fame Symptoms continued, without any other 

 alteration than that of her breath becoming more 

 fhort and convulfive. The convulfions became 

 llronger between eight and nine, and ilie gave 

 evident tokens of pain. At half paft nine 

 o'clock the Convulfions and Symptoms of pain 

 had almoft ceafed, and the lethargic ftupor was 

 confiderably increafed. At ten o'clock I left her, 

 her eyes were then funk and half clofed, (he 

 was totally deprived of fenfation and of motion, 

 except that excited by her fetching breath, fo 

 that her approaching diflblution appeared evi- 

 dent. The next morning fhe was found dead. 



On Difleftion, both the Ventricles and Auri- 

 cles of the heart were found filled and diftended 

 with black grumous blood ; the ftomach empty, 

 but apparently much inflamed ; the bladder 

 empty and perfeftly coUapfed ; the other intef- 

 tines in their ufual ftate, and the brain alfo 

 perfedly found. 



Exp. II, At fifteen minutes after twelve, I 



gave a Puppy, weighing nine pounds, forty grains 



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