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$0* at Pisa, was dissecting a woman, a student lighting 

 him with a candle, he had no sooner opened the stomach, 

 than there issued out a yellow greenish flame. A like 

 thing happened some years after at Lyons, in dissecting 

 a woruan. Her stomach was no sooner opened, than a 

 considejahle flame burst out and filled the place. But 

 this is rot so much to be wondered at, since the experi- 

 ments made by Dr. Vulpari, anatomical professor at Bo- 

 logna. He affirms, any one may see, issuing from the 

 stomach of an animal, a matter that burns like spirits 

 of wine, if the upper and lower orifices are bound fast 

 with a very strong thread. The stomach thus tied, must 

 be cut, above, and under the ligature, and afterwards 

 pressed with both hands, so as to make all that it con- 

 tain^ pass to one side. This will produce a swelling in 

 that part, which must be held with the left hand, to 

 hinder its escaping. A candle then being held abont 

 half an inch from the stomach, let it be suddenly opened 

 by the right hand, and a bluish flame will immediately 

 gush ou which will sometimes last a minute. The 

 same way flame may be brought forth from the intes- 

 tines also. 



Nor is it from carcasses only that flames have issued. 

 This has been the case with live persons likewise. Bartho- 

 line relates,, that a popish cavalier, having drank a quan- 

 tity of brandy died in a little space, after an eruption of 

 a flame through his mouth. He relates also the case of 

 three others, who, after drinking much brandy, experi- 

 enced the same symptom. Two presently died; the 

 third escaped by immediately drinking cold water. Still 

 more astonishingis the case of a woman at Paris, who 

 used to drink brandy to excess* She was one night re- 

 duced to ashes by a fire from within, all but her head, 

 and the ends of her fingers. In like manner Cornelia 

 Bandi, an aged lady of unblemished life, near Cesena, in 

 Romagna, in 1731, retired in the evening into her cham- 

 ber ; and in the morning was .found in the middle of the 

 room, reduced to ashes, all except her face, skull, three 

 fingers and her legs, which remained entire, with her 

 shoes and stockings. The ashes were light: the floos. 



