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speech^ weakness of sights and even a total loss 

 of these faculties. In this state some of the men 

 continued to march, for a greater or lesser time, 

 led by their comrades. The action of the mus- 

 cles gradually grew weaker; the men reeled 

 about as if they were drunk ; and their debility 

 increased until they fell down ; a certain sign of 

 the total extinction of life. 



The incessant and rapid march of the troops 

 in close masses, obliged those who could not 

 bear it, to quit the centre to walk along the side 

 of the road. Separated from this compact co- 

 lumn, and left to themselves, they soon lost their 

 equilibrium, and fell into the ditches of snow, 

 from which it was hardly possible for them to get 

 out. Here they were immediately siezed with a 

 painful numbness, followed by lethargic drowsi- 

 ness, and in a few minutes their miserable exist- 

 ence terminated." 



Treatment of Persons in a State of Torpor , 

 or Suspended Anifnation from Cold, — The 

 ample experience of Larrey," (continues the 



