(1% Memoirs of ''J. Bernoulli. 



teen glands could be diftin&ly made out ; the jaw-bones be- 

 came liberated ; and thefe, whether from prefuire of the 

 glands, or imperfect offification, were bent up a little from 

 their natural courfe ; and, not to tire the reader, I fhall 

 finally remark, that in lefs than eight months the deereaie 

 was jive inches by meafurement round the neck ! 1 he hands, 

 which before were unufually cold, were comfortably warm 



curincf the whole time the vital air was inhaled, and the 



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appetite and fpirits increafed. Mr. Cruickniank obferved, 

 that during the time of inhaling the fuperoxygenated air, 

 the pulfe were raifed about iix beats in a minute, and be- 

 came ftronger. I mult beg leave to mention here, that I 

 alio roufed the abforbents by both topical as well as inter- 

 nal remedies. But why I place fuch a ftrefs on the power of 

 the vital air over this fyftern of .veffels, is, that from the ex- 

 periment of Dr. Beddoes, which he made upon himfelf, 

 while inhaling a fuperoxygenated air, he became, he ob- 

 ferves, confiderably diminiihed in bulk, although he eat 

 twice as much as before, which I conceive could only arifc 

 from the fuperior energy given to the abforbents by the vital 

 air: — But, however the wife ones, paft the age of forty, 

 may fmile at theory, the facl or curemuft remain undoubted, 

 find it is intended to lay others (many of which are no lefs 

 remarkable) in quick fucceffion before the impartial tribu- 

 nal of the philoluphic world. 



XVII. Biographical Memoirs of Jamks Bernoulli. From 

 *Z>6'Ne\vTranfaetions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 at Pete rib urgh. 



JAMES Bernoulli, licentiate of law, member of the 

 Phvlical Society of Baile, and correfpondent of the Roval 

 Academv of Sciences at Turin, fon of John Bernoulli, L.L.D, 

 Profeflor of Mathematics in the univerfity of Bade, and of 

 puiannah Koenig, was born in that citv on the 17th of 



October 



