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merit, when I experienced no nausea or disposi- 

 tion to vomit, but certainly felt great debility or 

 weariness, the pulse was still about 80, and the 

 animal heat remained stationary at 98. I had 

 to regret, in this experiment, that the nausea 

 had not been sufficiently severe to cause its 

 ordinary and well-marked effects upon the sys- 

 tem. To obviate this incompleteness, Mr BUCHAN 

 very kindly submitted to a similar experiment, 

 and the general results were in every respect the 

 same as those already detailed, with the excep- 

 tion of the nausea ; and this continued in him, 

 oppressive and disagreeable to an extreme, for al- 

 most three hours, 



DXXL At half past eleven o'clock, A. M. the 

 day succeeding the previous experiment, his 

 pulse was 66 in a minute, small, the temperature 

 of the body 98, and that of the room 63^. 

 These circumstances being accurately noted, he 

 took four grains of emetic tartar, in about eight 

 ounces of water. He did not feel the least in- 

 convenience from this quantity for more than 

 half an hour; and, being desirous to promote sick- 

 ness, he took 10 grains of ipecacuanha in a simi- 

 lar quantity of water ; but this was accompanied 

 by no unpleasant sensation. On this account the 

 same dose was repeated ; and, in three quarters of 

 an hour from the commencement of the experi- 

 ment, he complained of great coldness in the 

 back and the superior and inferior extremities, 



