O.'i the Revivification of Infe&s. if I 



dpmeftic infects which are noxious and troublefome ; but, 

 on account of its ftrong lixivious fmell, which difpofes the 

 human body to putridity, I dare not recommend the ufc of it 

 in houfes that are inhabited. Befides, bugs may be eafily 

 got rid of, as I have repeatedly found from experience, by 

 the oily pickle that remains in cafks in which falted herrings 

 have been packed. To this liquor they have a ftrong aver- 

 fion ; and, if they are moiftened with it, they dje in a very 

 fhort time. 



XI. On the Revivification of fome Kinds of Infecis killed in 

 Spirit of IVine. By M. Socoloff. From the New 

 Tranfaftions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Pe- 

 terfburgh, Vol. V. 



JLT is very lingular, and worthy of great attention, that a. 

 fmall infect intoxicated with fpirit of wine and then im- 

 merfed in it, or killed on purpofe in that manner, may, by 

 certain means, be revivified, after having been deprived of 

 all fign3 of life for about a quarter of an hour. I had occa- 

 fion to obferve this circumftance, for the firft time, in com- 

 mon flics ; for it is well known that thefe infefts are ftrongly 

 attracted by the fmell of fpirit of wine ; and that, becoming 

 intoxicated by it, they fall into the liquor, and are drowned. 

 Having thrown a great number of flies which had pre- 

 riflied in this manner in a glafs, into a ftove among wood 

 afhes fcarcely warm, and looking into the ftove a little while 

 aftei , on account of fome experiments I was making, I ob- 

 ferved, not without aftonifhment, the flies ftart up from the 

 afhes, and, after wiping themfelves clean from the duft ad- 

 hering to their wjngs, fly away as if nothing had happened 

 to them*. 



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• A circumftance of a fimilar kind occurred to the late Dr. Franklin. 

 ^SThile he rcfidtd iii France he received from America a quantity of M?- 



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