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That though bis fkui exhibited no appearance ofpecoliarity, 

 either natural, or indicating preparation by art, yet without 

 injury, I. He bathed his feet for fix minutes, and wathed 

 hi& hands and face in oil heated to 250° of Fahrenheit, which 

 is 38 degrees hotter than boiling water. 2. He did the 

 fame with a folution of fea fait, heated 12 degrees higher* 

 3. He flood with his naked feet upon a bar of iron near the 

 welding, or at the white heat ; he held the bar in thisflate h\ 

 his hands, and rubbed it on the furface of his tongue. 5. He 

 wafliedhis mouth with the firongefi fulphuric and nitric acids, 

 and applied the fame to the other parts of his Ikin, with no 

 other effed than that the nitric acid produced a yellow tinge ; 

 and 6. he remained a confiderable time in an oven heated to 

 within 18 degrees of the boiling water point. 



Though our reafoning from analogy in matters of experi- 

 ment, is liable to miflead, as well by infufing too much doubt 

 as too much confidence, yet I fhould have paffed over this 

 tale without notice, if I hsd not heard of it from very refpe6i^ 

 able correfpondents. I fuppofe there may be fomething ex- 

 traordinary in the degree of infenfibility of the fubje6l in quef-»- 

 tion, as the Inflitute has paid attention to him ; but I under- 

 hand that the fiory is now told with great abatements. Citizen 

 Pinel, a man of information, and well kiwwn as an accurate 

 obferver, is commifhoned to report upon the fame ; and 1 have 

 MO doubt but his account will ftiew how much eafier it is for 

 men to tell falfehoods than to reverfe the courfe of nature. 



Method of giving Malt Spirits the Flavour cf Brandy* 



Plavour of malt INTO a quart of malt fpirits put three ounces and a half 

 fpirits amended. ^^ ^^^^. powdered charcoal, and four ounces and a half of 



ground rice. Let thefe ingredients remain during fifteeij. 



days, only obferving to flir them often : at the expiration of 



this time, let the liquor be flrained, and it will be found to be 



much improved. 



Preparation of a Lute proper for Chemical Operations. By 



C. Paysse, Profejfor of Chemiftri/.\ 



Lute, eg-'s and ^^ *^® preparation of the oxigenated muriatic acid in the 



chalk, or flaked large way, the neceffity I found for a lute, which, to the ad- 



*' * From the Bibliotheque Phyfique Ecoiiomique, No. 10. An. XL 



t From the Annales de Chimie, No. 137. An, XI, 



vantage 



