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doctor,) who was an eye-witness of all the dis- 

 asters of Napoleon's campaign in Russia, appears 

 also to confirm the truth of the principle incul- 

 cated by Hunter, Richter, Callisen, &c. In 

 describing the sufferings of the French army 

 from the rigour of the climate, Larrey exclaims, 

 * Woe to the man benumbed with cold, whose 

 animal functions were nearly exhausted, and 

 especially whose external sensibility was de- 

 stroyed, if he entered too suddenly into a warm 

 room, or came too near the fire of a bivouac ! 

 The prominent parts benumbed or frozen, at a 

 distance from the centre of the circulation, were 

 seized with gangrene, which made its appear- 

 ance at the very instant, and spread with such 

 rapidity, that its advances were perceptible by 

 the eye, or the individual was suddenly suffo- 

 cated with a kind of turgescence, which appeared 

 to affect the brain and lungs; he perished, as in 

 asphyxia. Thus died the chief apothecary of 

 the guards. He had arrived at Kowno, without 

 any accident, but his strength was much reduced 



