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On the ]20th minute, he lay in great agony, 

 groaneil, bellowed, and exfendedhis tongue and 

 extreinities violently couvulsed. 



In 12j miuutesj he was entirely exhausted ; 

 the breathing returned ai'ter long intervals. 



On the ISOth minute^ he died ronvulsed. 



Fifteen minutes after the motions of life had 

 ceased, I opened the cavities of the abdomen 

 and breast. The stonnach was immensely dis- 

 tended with air ; the vessels of all the visccra of 

 the abdomen were as injected and distended 

 with blood. In the thorax the lungs v/ere of a 

 \ivid, florid, crimson colour, and the great ves- 

 sels (the aörta^ venae-cavae, and the arteries and 

 veins of the liings) were gorged with blood. 



A smali pancture being made into the aorta, 

 the blood bonnded out in a stream of a beauti- 

 f ui crimson colour ; froni the venn; cava!; it fiow- 

 ed of a dark livid colour. In the hirge rnuscles 

 of the pcetus which had been divided in the dis- 

 section, a trembling vibratory motion was ob- 

 served fnll 20 minutes after the motions of life 

 hal ceased. 



Experiment XIV. 

 A Fowl of middiing size was punctured in the 

 rnuscles of the thigh wilh a poisoned dart fiom 



