314 A remarkable Cure by 



uninterrupted health, and is able, at pleafure, to walk up 

 Highgate-hill. 



As many perfons might wifli to fee the lady's journal in 

 her own words, I here fubjoin it, with a few obfervations. 



" September 13. 1798. Firft inhaled the vital air. Felt 

 acute, fpafms in the cheft, and fainted." 



Obfervation. Artificial inhalation is accompanied with 

 increased a '•Han of the intcrcoftal mufcles, and gives fre- 

 quently afterwards a fenfation of mufcular pain, which 

 fpeeail) goes off, and after a few trials does not appear 

 again. The fecond effect we always fee in thofe very weak, 

 and hence the cxpreffion of " being overpowered by the air." 

 Patients labouring under fcurvy, if fuddenly expofed to a 

 clear air, are killed inftantaneouflv. 



" September 15. Felt a moft pleafant glow after the in- 

 halation of the vital air. Spirits alfo much increafed, feeling 

 as if a gre3t weight, or oppreffion; was removed. 



" September 16. The hardnefs about the heel gone, as 

 alfo the fcttor. Has lefs difcharge. The wound looks red^ 

 der. The glow after the inhalation of the vital air lafts for 

 about a quarter of an hour. 



" September 18. The glow, and fpirits, after the lafi in- 

 halation, lafted four hours. Feel wonderfully light, and 

 pleafant. 



" September SO. Afked bv my apothecary, ' Whether I 

 did not feel, from the inhalation of the vital air, an uncom- 

 fortable beat P' My anfwer was, that it produced the moft 

 pleafant glow imaginable, not at all refembling beat." 



Obfervation. Putting the thermometer under the tongue, 

 the feniible heat was not increafed. This effect may per- 

 haps be accounted for from the increafed fenfibility of the 

 nerves; or, does the infenfible perfpiration raifed by the ca- 

 pillaries of the fkin being filled by the greater energy of the 

 bxait, account for this phenomenon better? I have almofi 

 ^variably found the iniide of the palm of the hand, after, 



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