in its Relations to Physiology, 437 



course of twenty-four hours, I infer that the non-nitrogenous constitu- 

 ents of his food (gum, starch, sugar, &c.) must likewise participate in 

 the formation of the bile, because the amount of carbon contained in 

 the bile is greater than is contained in all the blood-constituents par- 

 taken of together, can this conclusion be called in question ? 



When, from not finding any bile in the faeces, I maintain that the 

 bile must, in some manner, return into the circulation, to serve ulti- 

 mately for the respiratory process, which means no more than that its 

 carbon and hydrogen are eliminated from the organism in the form of 

 carbonic acid and water ; and further, when the physician finds that in 

 cases where, by the administration of calomel, the bile, altered but 

 little in its properties, is evacuated in the stools (known as calomel 

 stools), the absence of the matter needed for respiration causes all the 

 inspired oxygen to be directed towards the cause of the disease, and 

 owing to this circumstance the disease is removed, can my inferences be 

 doubted? Nevertheless, I do no more than desire my opponents to 

 consider them as probable, and to submit them to the test of examina- 

 tion. But this has no weight with such people. 



If some young author relates a tissue of marvellous tales to support 

 an opinion that there exists certain states of disease in which the blood, 

 which contains 80 per cent, of water, the flesh and tissues 75 per cent., 

 and the bones 30 per cent, (thus altogether three-fourths water), may 

 burn from within, in the absence of oxygen, these same physiologists 

 will believe his assertions.* Our author has not, indeed, himself 

 witnessed any case of this kind, he has never been in a situation to 

 establish even a single one of the facts upon which the whole fabric of 

 his tale rests ; but it would require too much self-denial, a superhuman 

 effort, to destroy such splendid tales, which render his book or his 

 lectures so interesting ! 



* " What thing did you see 1 Speak boldly." 



" I have seen a ship," said I, " going against a fierce wind with the same velocity as a horse, 

 and that by the vapour of boiling water." 



"Hajji," said the king (after a stare and a thought), "say no lies here. After all, we are 

 a King. Although you are a traveller, and have been to the Franks, yet a lie is a lie, come 

 from whence it may." * * * * " So you encountered great tempests ?" said the Shah. 

 " Say on Hajji, everything you have in your heart, say on." 



" Yes, may it please your Majesty," said I, " one tempest we encountered, on our passage 

 from England to Constantinople, was so great, that, venturing to look overboard to see how 

 fast we were going for the good of your Majesty's service, and happening to leave my mouth 

 open, a fierce wind entered, and blew three of your slave's teeth down his throat." Upon this 

 I opened my mouth and showed the damage which my jaw had sustained from the kick of a 

 Curdish horse. 



" Are there such winds, indeed ?" asked the Shah. " In truth they rush down with violence 

 enough from the neighbouring heights of Who"— Hajji Baba in England. 



