174 ACTIOM OP DIFFERENT GASSCS ON MEAT. 



4th and 5th daj's. The colour grew paler. 



From the 6th to the 8th day. The colour was destroyed, 

 and the meat had the appearance of having been wabhed, 



9th day. The drops appeared at the surface as in the first 

 experiment. 



18th day. The drops, became opake, appeared like the 

 eruption of small pox. The meat preserved its firmness 

 without liquefying, though the temperature was higher than 

 in the former experiments. 



From the 19th to the 21st day. May the 25th. Visible 

 signs of putrescency were observed on the surface, the little 

 drops ran into each other, and the surface became blackish. 



4.n accident having overturned the jar, the gas escaped, 

 and diffused such a strong stench throughout the house, 

 that we were obliged to perfume it strongly, to get rid of 

 the smell. 



6. Oxigenfrom nitrate of potash, m an empty bottle, stop* 

 ped tvith a cork, 



Exp. 6. Oxi- 1st, 2d, and 3d day. The meat did not grow redder.^ 

 jen from ni- ^^j^ ^^y^ jt gre^y pa|e. 



inTcorked ^ 5th to the 5lRt, No little drops were observed, but the 

 bottle. meat gradully grew pale, became putrid, and liquefied at 



the surface. At length a considerable quantity of liquid, of 



a bad colour, was formed, and flowed down into the neck of 



the bottle. 



The meat was covered with moisture. Its smell was not 



so strong as that of the preceding piece putrefied in oxigea 



gas, and of a different kind. 



7. Atmospheric air, over mercury, 



Exp. 7. Au 1st and 2d days. April the 5th and 6th. No remarkable 

 niosphi^ric air change. 



over mercury. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ medX is become very pale; paler than ia 

 the oxigen gas. 



5th to the 51st. The little drops of liquid were not per- 

 ceived. From the 8th day it became covered with moisture, 

 and liquefied at the surface, but less than that in oxigen 

 gas; and at the close it appeared less black than in pure 



oxigee 



