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The animal during all this time appeared lively, and ate 

 parsley. 



In eleven after it, - - 96 > 



In twelve hours, - 97 



Night coming on, the temperature was not measured for' 

 thirteen hours. In the morning the rabbit appeared lively, 

 and ate readily. 



In twenty five hours after the operation, - 88 



In twenty -seven hours after it, 84 



In twenty -nine hours after it, - 88 



In thirty hours after it, - 84 



In thirty-one hours after it, 84 



In thirty- three hours after it, '* - 80 



The animal still continued to eat. In thirty-four hour? 

 after the operation the temperature was 75." 



" This animal did not appear nearly so cold as 

 that in the preceding experiment, in which a 

 larger and more important part of the spinal 

 marrow was destroyed." 



It is difficult to conceive how so acute a phy- 

 siologist as WILSON PHILIP could watch the di- 

 minution of temperature, the laborious breathing, 

 nay, even the shiverings of the animal, and yet 

 keep his attention fixed exclusively upon the sto- 

 mach and the nerves. This fact ought to make us 

 extremely lenient towards those less gifted, and 

 possessing fewer opportunities of observation. 

 When the temperature of the human constitu- 

 tion is raised or depressed a few degrees, the se- 



* Dr WILSON PHILIP on the Vital Functions, p. 176. 



