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heat, is inaccurate ; and if this fact be considered 

 established, it necessary follows, that the whole 

 of his reasoning, connected with the present 

 subject, is fallacious or imperfect. I hope it has 

 been sufficiently proved, that the temperature of 

 two individuals may be the same in degree, and 

 the source to which this is attributed similar in 

 both, and yet one may be almost frozen to death 

 while the other is comparatively little affected ; 

 and, still further, that two individuals, as in the 

 present instance, will recover, by the application 

 of warmth, with different degrees of facility, 

 without being compelled to suppose, with this 

 physiologist, that the conditions which regulate 

 this phenomenon are derived from the laws of 

 the generation of animal heat. 



CL. If the system of the infant and adult 

 were precisely the same in regard to circulation, 

 sensibility, and the chief of the organic functions, 

 it would be consistent to employ the means 

 which he has employed, and correct to draw the 

 conclusions which he has drawn from them; but 

 it is impossible to allow this mode of proceed- 

 ing, since the systems on which he experiments 

 are as opposite as the results which they give. 

 The number of respirations, and the frequency 

 of pulsations in a given time, the power and 

 character of digestion, and the state of the inter- 

 nal organs, are too important to be overlooked in 

 calculating the influence of an external agent. 



