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rious, and the severity of this symptom con- 

 tinued to increase till death. 



While the lungs were enabled to act with 

 regularity, the stomach was scarcely, if at all, 

 impeded in its functions ; and this accounts for 

 the similarity in the results presented by the 

 food which had been takenbefore the operation, 

 and the irregularity or imperfection in the re- 

 spiration after the animal had been enfeebled 

 or oppressed by the operation. .Application of 

 galvanism, and the constraint of its position, 

 accounts also for the food being in the oesopha- 

 gus, and consequently unchanged, while that 

 which the other had taken was in the cardia, 

 and in part digested : so that the latter part of 

 this experiment differs little from others which 

 he offers to our notice, in which the nerves were 

 divided without being followed by the employ- 

 ment of galvanism. In accordance with this 

 opinion is the condition of the lungs as de- 

 scribed by WILSON PHILIP : " The lungs did 

 not collapse on opening the thorax, the air-cells 

 being full of a frothy and bloody serum. The 

 lungs were externally of an uniform dark-red co- 

 lour. The heart was a little increased in size, 

 and highly vascular." * 



LXX. Experiment 49. on two dogs, presents no- 

 thing of importance, except that the one in which 



* Dr WILSON PHILIP on the Vital Functions, p. 132. 



