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with blood.” Again, speaking of a man afflicted 
with apoplexy, he adds, “ while he lay insensible 
in the bed, covered with blankets, I found that 
his whole body would in an instant become ex- 
tremely cold in every part, continuing so for some 
time; while these changes were going on alter- 
nately, there was no sensible alteration in the 
pulse for several hours.” This is a strongly marked 
case, but it is impossible to attend a large hospital 
long, without observing cases resembling it to a 
certain. extent ; at one time, the heat is greatest at 
the temples, the cheeks, or the region of the liver; 
at another, the diminution of temperature extends” 
over half the body. The following is the most 
important case of this kind that has ever come 
under my own observation, and which I shall 
detail with accuracy, as it bears not less strongly 
on the subject of irritability, than that of animal 
heat :— | 
x1. January 1820. M. Deschamps, aged 49 
years, had an attack of apoplexy, in February 
1819, which terminated in hemiplegia of the right 
side. The fingers of the right hand are now firmly 
clinched, and require a very considerable force to 
open them; the pupil of the right eye is much 
dilated ; the pulse of the paralytic arm is stronger 
and fuller than that of the sound one: the tem- 
perature of the room being 9° of Reaumur, the 
heat of the paralytic hand is 19°, and the healthy 



