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as these show that the respiratory function was 

 scarcely at all troubled. He remarks, " It had 

 not vomited, and had had little or no dyspnoea. The 

 lungs collapsed on opening the thorax, but contain- 

 ed only a little frothy mucus:' If the reader will 

 compare this description with those previously 

 given, he will acknowledge the present experi- 

 ment to be corroborative of the opinion continu- 

 ally expressed concerning the cause of the cessa- 

 tion of digestion. WILSON PHILIP, in speaking 

 of the dark red patches, which always characte- 

 rised the lungs of those rabbits in which the 

 eighth pair of nerves had been divided, observes, 

 that he cannot compare these patches to any 

 thing except what " now and then appears in 

 the lungs of the entire animal after it has lain 

 dead for many hours. In the living animal it 

 was always proportioned to the degree in which 

 the secreting power of the lungs was deranged, 

 appearing to the greatest degree when the conges- 

 tion of the lungs was greatest ; and not appearing 

 at all, although the eighth pair of nerves had 

 been divided, when the breathing was rendered 

 free, and the congestion prevented, by galva- 

 nism."* 



LXXVII. Many fallacies in reasoning are con- 

 cealed by an ingenious or sparing application of 

 principles. The view presented seems correct, 

 because one phase is alone offered, and this of a 



* Dr WILSON PHILIP on the Vital Functions, p. 216. 



