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destroying the functions of the brain, it may, in 

 some instances at least, be made to recover, if 

 respiration is artificially produced and continued 

 for a certain length of time. 



From analogy we might draw some conclu- 

 sions respecting the mode in which some other 

 vegetable poisons produce their effects on the 

 animal system ; but I forbear to enter into any 

 speculative inquiries, as it is my wish, in the 

 present communication, to record such facts 

 only as appear to be established by actual ex- 

 periment. 



