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more vascular than natural. The bronchial cells 

 were slightly loaded with frothy mucus, and 

 there were the same red patches in the lungs as 

 after dividing the eighth pair of nerves." From 

 bringing forward the symptoms as described by 

 WILSON PHILIP, it is scarcely necessary to make 

 any observations upon them : they differ little 

 from those which have been already detailed, 

 and the results are of the same kind. 



LXXVI. Disordered respiration is one of the 

 first symptoms which he mentions, and this con- 

 tinued for many hours. The animal was lastly 

 observed to be very cold and shivered, which sign 

 has been stated in LXIV. of thepresent Chapter to 

 be the most sure indication of a condition of the 

 system incompatible with the essential functions 

 of life. The cause of the cold which it experi- 

 enced is found in the description which is given, 

 " the bronchial cells were slightly loaded with frothy 

 and bloody mucus." Experiment 60. will illus- 

 trate more accurately the precise states of the 

 temperature. In this experiment he wished to 

 try the effects of the destruction of a smaller por- 

 tion of the spinal marrow, and, for this purpose, 

 introduced a small wire into the spinal canal, at 

 the first lumbar vertebra, " and that part of the 

 spinal marrow which lies below this vertebra was 

 destroyed." The state of the respiration is not 

 mentioned, and from this, one is led to suppose 

 that there was nothing peculiar about it. " On 



