Inhalation of Vital Air. 2\$ 



and during the inhalation, break out in a pleafant moifture, 

 which arc parts fomewhat remote from the heart. 



" October 4. The pain in the heel infinitely more lively. 

 The pain is a neiu pain ; but, thanks be to God ! it remits 

 for three or four hours every day." 



Thefe are the chief particulars: the nature of your Maga- 

 zine may not admit of a further detail, nor does the nature 

 of the cafe feem to require it. 



General Obferv ation . The change of colour in the 

 wound, fo immediately after the inhalation of the vital air, 

 ieems to indicate a remarkable- change wrought in the blood. 

 It is not, however, the temporary increafe of oxygen only 

 in the fyftcm, that this partial inhalation produces ; for it 

 renders the blood alfo more attractive of this principle. 

 Hence the continuance for fome time, even in London, 

 among people of fafhion, of the good looks acquired in the 

 country ; hence the pallid countenance of the man lately re- 

 covered from fuffocation, or drowning; and hence alfo the 

 return of the breath in patients under this treatment 

 being more and more noxious, from a greater abforptiori 

 of oxygen. The deterioration of the air infpired, has 

 ever indicated the attractive power of the bWd. Hence 

 alfo it is that fubftances abounding in hydrogen are called 

 cordials, from their fympathetic action on the heart, through 

 the medium of the blood : but in the fuperoxygenated air 

 we have a more direct action on the heart, without exhauft- 

 ing the irritable principle, and occafioning indirect debility j 

 and I truft I (hall be able to make it evident to the unpre- 

 judiced mind, that this is a great defideratum in furgery 

 and medicine, more efpecially where difeafes are remote 

 from the heart ; or elfe, why do we fo frequently hear of fore 

 legs, but never of Jore arms? But, however the modus 

 operandi of thefe new powers may be, the obfervance offa<3s 

 is of greater importance ; and 1 here beg leave publicly to 

 thank thole ingenious medioal gentlemen who have honour- 

 ed mc with their correfpondence on this fubject, the remit 

 of which will be laid before the philofophic world. 



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