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tremities were cold. He, however, continued to write : and sleep, each night, afford- 

 ed him a few hours ease. 



From the 20th to the 12th the symptoms made a slight progress. His constancy nevep 

 yielded an instant : he dictated his journal, and afterwards approved and signed what 

 had been written agreeable to his dictation. During the night of the 12th the symptoms 

 assumed a more decided character ; debility was extreme, pulsation scarcely sensible, 

 his voice extraordinarily feeble, the cold had extended itself all over his body, and the 

 pangs of thirst were more acute than ever. On the 13th the unhappy man, thinking 

 himself at the point of death, again seized the jug of water and drank twice, after 

 which the cold became more severe ; and, congratulating himself at the approach of 

 death, he stretched himself on the bed, and said to the gendarmes who were guarding 

 him, "Look how well I have laid myself out." At the expiration of a quarter of an 

 hour, he asked for some brandy , the keeper not having any, he called for some wine, 

 of which' he took four spoonsfull. When he had swallowed these the cold suddenly 

 ceased, heat returned, and he enjoyed a sleep of four hours. 



On awaking (on the morning of the 12th) and finding his powers restored, he fell into 

 a rage with the keeper. During the two following days, he resisted his inclination to 

 drink, but continued to gargle occasionally with water/ During the nights he suffered 

 a little from exhaustion, but in the morning found himself rather relieved. It was then 

 he composed some stanzas. On the 16th in the morning his powers were nearly annihi- 

 lated, pulsation could hardly be felt, and his voice was almost wholly inaudible ; his body 

 was benumbed with cold, and it was thought that he was upon the point of expiring. At 

 ten oclock he began to feel better, pulsation was more sensible, his voice strengthened, 

 and heat again extended over his frame ; and in this state he continued during the whol 

 of the 17th. From that day until the 20th he only became more inexorable in his reso 

 lution to die. 



During the 19th the pangs of hunger and thirst appeared more grievous than ever : 

 so insufferable indeed were they, that, for the first time, Viterbi let a few tears escape 

 him ; but his invincible mind instantly spurned the human tribute. For a moment he 

 seemed to have resumed his wonted energy, and said in the presence of his guards, " I 

 will persist, my mind shall be stronger than my body, my strength of mind does not 

 vary, that of my body daily becomes weaker." A little after this energetic expression, 

 which showed the powerful influence of his moral faculties over his physical necessities, 

 an icy coldness again assailed his body, the shiverings were frequent and dreadful, and 

 his loins in particular, were seized with a stone coldness, which extended itself down 

 his thighs. 



During the 19th, a slight pain at intervals affected his heart, and for the first time he 

 felt a ringing sensation in his ears. At noon, on this day, his head became heavy ; his 

 sight, however, was perfect, and he conversed almost as usual, making some signs with 

 his hands. On the 20th he declared to the gaoler and physicans that he would not 

 again moisten his mouth, and feeling the approach of death, he stretched himself on 

 the bed, and said, " I am prepared to leave this world." Death did not this time be- 

 tray his hopes ; on the 21st he was no more. Until the day of his death this man re- 

 gularly kept his journal. The delivery of it to his friends was refused. (From the Cor- 

 sican Gazette.} 



Of Digestion. 

 Note K. 



! Of Digestion in the Stomach. M. Lallemand has drawn the following inferences 

 from his observations and experiments on digestion : 



" 1. That, if it be true that alimentary substances, the most perfectly animalizeo^ 

 contain the most nutritive matter, it does not thence follow that they are the most ra- 

 pidly digested. 



2. That, on the contrary, the process of digestion is more long and laborious, as, 

 in a given volume, the aliment contains more nutritive matter, and vice versa. 



" 3. That the aliments do not escape from the stomach in the order in which they 

 are introduced, but that it is not those which are first altered by digestion that pass the 

 first : it is those on the contrary, which, containing least alimentary matter, are most 

 jreiractory to the digestive powers." 



