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tines were coarser and less perfectly concocted than ordi- 

 nary. 



In the following rabbit, the par vagum was divided on 

 one side only. Temperature 104. 



Time. Temperature. Observations. 



3 o'clock 105 Appearance healthy. 



5, 1041 ditto. 



7, 104J ditto. 

 9, 104 ditto. 



11, 103 ditto. 



1, A. M 103 ditto. 



8, ditto, 104 ditto. 



At eight o'clock in the morning the rabbit was killed. 



Dissection. The lungs collapsed perfectly, but seemed 

 somewhat of a darker colour. The stomach, of a mode- 

 rate size, was filled with a mass that had lost the coarse 

 and chopped appearance of undigested vegetable, yet pre- 

 sented the vegetable smell, and here and there the vege- 

 table texture. The whole contents, at a superficial glance, 

 appeared homogeneous. The large intestines exhibited 

 the conditions of health. 



EXPERIMENT III. 



The three rabbits employed in this experiment were full 

 grown, healthy, and equally vigorous. They had fasted 

 twenty hours before they were fed with dandelion at eight 

 o'clock in the morning. The operations were performed 

 at half-past eight. In the following rabbit the trachea was 

 cut, and a tube attached to it, as in the preceding experi- 

 ment. Its temperature was 103. The nerves were left 

 intact.* 



At two o'clock the temperature was 104| ; respiration 

 regular and easy. It seized with avidity the food which 

 was offered. From this time till ten o'clock at night there 



* The trachea only in this and some other experiments was 

 cut, in order that we might estimate the influence of such a 

 serious operation on the digestive powers. 



