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cases, to alter the regularity or rate ofitsrhythm, and it is probably 
impossible for one to make an accurate estimate of his own pulse. 
But there are several instances in which the connection does not 
seem to have been so clear. Tüke investigated the case of an old 
man who at will could increase his heart rhythm by twenty beats 
per minute. A Lieut. Townsend could restrain respiration and 
heart beat until he fell into a death-like condition and the body 
began to grow cold, Professor Tarchanoff reports a series of ex- 
periments carried out on a student who could voluntarily hasten 
his heart-beat from about 90 to 120 beats per minute. The patient 
declared that this acceleration was not preceded by any special 
emotion, and mere thinking of the condition would not produce 
it, but that a direct and fatiguing effort of the will was necessary 
to cause the quickening. Comparative measurements showed 
that during the acceleration there was no constant alteration of 
the respiration, but that the blood pressure uniformly rose with 
the heart beat.—P/fliiger’s Archiv. Bd., 35, p. 109. 
PSYCHOLOGY. 
INTELLIGENCE OF A SETTER Doc.—In the winter of 1880 I pur- 
chased in the East a dog puppy out of a purely bred English 
Gordon setter bitch, by the well known prize-winning Irish water 
spaniel, Bramton Barney. 
He was the only puppy in the litter and no other puppies came 
from the same cross, for the reason that the bitch died soon after, 
and bringing the puppy here he was named Barney, and keeping 
him in the office where there were several persons employed, his 
exceeding good nature was courted and his naturally pleasing 
(aside from his determination), yet nervous disposition was en- 
couraged. : 
After a little training Barney took to retrieving, but his more 
noticeable traits was the working up of some mischievous act of 
his, which, though puppy-like, would at times be so unlike the or- 
dinary as to appear to the observer as original. 
In the spring following, when but about six months old, he re- 
trieved his first duck from water, and this one being a wounded 
ruddy duck made the young “ dropper ” labor hard to make good 
the catch and bring the bird to me, as it was yet alive. ; 
From this time on there seemed no difficulty in getting 
him to go for a wounded or dead bird at any time, but owing to 
his exceedingly stubborn nature he was very hard to govern in 
such manner that he would perform the service as work and not as 
yards from shore, breaking the ice which, by the way, was not very 
thick. Barney without a whine followed after me and without 
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