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slight shocks in his arms ; and that if he were to receive one more, he woidd 

 certainly let the string go. On which Mr. C. laid hold of the string, and pulled 

 the kite in as fast as he could, without any further observation. When the kite 

 was pulled in, it was JO minutes after 4 o'clock; so that all the time that this 

 experiment took up was ] hour and 10 minutes. There was neither thunder nor 

 lightning perceived that day, nor indeed for some days before or afterwards. 



XXIV. Proposals for the Recovery of People Apparently Drowned. By John 



Hunter, Esq., F. R. S. p. 412. 



RepriiUed in Mr. J. H.'s Observations on the Animal Economy, 4to., 1786. 



XXV. An Extraordinary Cure of fVoundcd Intestines. By Charles Nourse, 



Surgeon, Oxford, p. 426. 

 In the evening of the 26th of Sept., 1775, Mr. N. was called in great haste 

 to James Langford, a young man in his 21st year, who had been maliciously 

 stabbed, with a knife, in the left side of his belly. The wound was between 2 

 and 3 inches in length, running from the left os ilium obliquely upwards towards 

 the navel. Mr. N. found him lying on the floor, weltering in his blood, with a 

 large portion of his intestines forced through the wound; and he learnt, from 

 the unhappy youth himself, that as soon as the wound was inflicted, the bowels 

 began to appear; and by the time he got to him, which could not exceed 10 

 minutes, he verily believes, that the full half of the intestinal tube was protruded 

 through the opening. This he attributed in some measure to the fulness of the 

 stomach; for, immediately before the accident happened, he had eaten a very 

 hearty supper. The wound at first bled freely; but the haemorrhage was soon 

 restrained by the pressure of the prolapsed intestines, which were, to a great 

 degree, distended with air; and from this circumstance he was flattered with the 

 best hopes that they had escaped the assassin's knife; but, to his great disap- 

 pointment, it proved otherwise. Examining the man's pulse, he found it was 

 exceedingly low, quick, and interrupted; his skin was all over cold and clammy, 

 and he laboured under great languor, anxiety, and pain about the prgecordia. 

 He also complained of a disagreeable tingling and numbness of the whole thigh, 

 leg, and foot, of the side wounded ; and said, that he dropped on the floor in 

 consequence of the inability of the limb to support him, and not from any faint- 

 ness, as might have been reasonably expected from the loss of blood, or through 

 fear, to which indeed he seemed an utter stranger. Mr. N. ordered him to be 

 conveyed to his bed in a horizontal posture, lest the raising of the body might 

 encourage a farther descent of the parts which still remained in the abdomen - 

 and a fomentation of port wine with warm water to be got ready immediately 

 out of which a double flannel should be wrung, and applied directly to the pro- 



