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of ace -, and the body, after hanging the usual time, was 

 con\^eved to the experunent-rooni an hour later than f'orsteri 

 it arrived at leu vinnutes past nine. 



] St, OjvVgen gas was introduced through the trachea at 

 a quarter past nine. 



2d, A conductor from a galvanic apparatus, consisting of 

 about a hundred square plates of zmc and copper, about 

 tour niches diameter, disposed in three troughs, and which 

 produced visible sparks, being applied to a piece of tinfoil, 

 introduced so as to come into contact with the great inter- 

 costal, the par vagum, and phrenic nerves, the other end of 

 the apparatus beijag connected with the rectum, for ten mi- 

 nutes, a little motion was produced in the lips and the sternal 

 muscles. 



3d, Common air being forced from several bladders mto 

 the trachea, so as to inflate the thorax, friction being, at the 

 same time, applied, together with the galvanism as before, 

 ihc face became very black. The apparatus operated in a 

 very powerful manner. At tv^-enty-fivc minutes after nine, 

 the blackness of the face disappeared : the air contained \n ' 

 six bladders was forced into the lungs, by which the body 

 was considerably inflated. 



4th, At twentv minutes before ten, cloths heated by hot 

 water were applied to the thorax ; the galvanism and infla- 

 t ion with common air were continued, and again produced 

 blackness in the face. 



5th, Five minutes before ten. Inflating with a pair of bel- 

 lows, galvanising, and the application of hot cloths^, were 

 continued. 



flth. At ten o'clock, a vein was opened in the arm, from 

 which black blood flowed on pressure, as in the state of 

 life ; no blood in the temporal artery. 



7th, Conductors were applied to the schneiderian artery; 

 increased contractions of the lips and muscles of the face 

 took place. During these operations it was observed that 

 the veins of the arms were distended. 



Ten minutes after ten, conductors being applied to the 

 pericardium and the diaphragm, the action of the pectoral 

 nuisclcs was excited. 



Slh, When applied to the denuded pectoral muscles, 

 Ftrcng action was excited. 



9th, The lunjrs were proved to be in a sound state by m-> 

 flatinsi them with a pair of bellows. The neck bad been 

 iiuicirinjmul by pulUtig and twisting the body round v.hile 



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