36 _ ANALYTIC SECT. V, 
in my own practice, and the other in Dr Sillar’s. 
When an eschar does not permanently restore the 
expansibility of the muscles, it begins to diminish 
on the fourth day, and they arrive at their usual 
morbid state of contraction about the eight or 
ninth. 
Lxvill. The expansion caused by the vital force 
must not be confounded with expansion caused 
by external force, or the contraction of opposing 
muscles. 
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