l7S Tenth Comnnlmcntion from Dr. Tkorntoil. 



8. That muscular pnu^'r was restored. Mrs. Lowr)' carc*» 

 fully noted, at my desire, the number of steps she took in 

 coming to my house, and upon returning after the inha- 

 lation of a superoxygenated air.; and she found that the 

 number required upon return was reduced nearly one-third. 

 If you notice the pavior : — before he strikes in the stone 

 he forcibly drives out the air in his lungs, takes in a full in- 

 spiration, and then uses his powerful exertion. The panting 

 for breath shows the use of this principle in the blood for 

 exercise* 



9. The whole frame had a deadly cold, and the fingers 

 looked blue. The Promethean lire inspired into the man of 

 clay, to those fond of interpreting of antient hieroglyphics, 

 1 would sav ^\'as no other than vital air, which contains, 

 «nd imparts to the body, the animal heat. *' And he 

 breathed into him the breath of life." Moses. " In the 

 blood is the life ;" {the breath of Ife, the vital air;) there- 

 fore {in. reverence to this principle) " Thou shall not eat the 

 blood." Moses. 



10. That the voice was no longer taken alvaij by smells. 

 This is a curious fact, and shows the influence of the vital air 

 in giving energy to the muscles of the larynx. I could 

 incntion, that a certain great actress upon inhaling the vital 

 Air found the power of her voice perceptibly increased ; 

 hll her lower tones were in every part of the house distinctlv 

 heard, and a person was appointed by her purposely to as- 

 certain this fact. The voice is always found stronger by 

 the sea side. 



11. When the blind boy recovered to sight was asked by 

 (he jen',5 about it, his ansuer wa.>, " I know before I was 

 blind, now I see." So of those who have been recovered 

 by the vital air, beforethey were tliought incurable, 7ioii> 

 (ney are cured. These attribute the effect to the cause i 

 why should medical gentleme)i then hesitate making an 

 experience for themselves ? 'I'liorc is no concealment of 

 iiames, or of the remedies at the same time employed, 

 or any thing above plain reasoning. Mr. Watt of Bir- 

 mingham has kiiidly contrived a simple apparatus for 

 irtakinsr the vital and other airs * ; the process is easy f. A 

 pneumatic apparatus for breathing the airs is cheap j. Ar- 

 tificial air may be conveyed to any part of the world ra 



* Tliis coits. to fabricate ihc airs, three pounds. 

 . f This is destribcil by mc. wr.h a lia;ure of the apparatus by Mr. 

 towrvi vol. i. y-d^c 347, of my Philosophy of McJicine, A pound oi 

 V rtiig^iitsi; will vitid 20 quarts o*^ viial air, and a hundred weight of 

 rtia 1^ ific'.t: is sohl in Lop.don for 18 shilhnu.'s. 

 ■^ A 11:1 sprar:.tu^ ttii't' aboU: thirty -.r-ilHin^s. 



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