X. Jn Acmut of a ^ooky EntituM^ 
Joh., Conradi Beckeri, <^hil. isr Mti. D. TraElns 
- Alsfeld. Medici Ordln. <Paradoxum Medico^Legale de 
fuhmerforum Morte fine pota Aqua^ aliquot Cada^e^ 
rum feflionihu^ deteHum^ <t e principiis mechanicis. 
iUuflratum. Cut adjicitur Dodeca^ ObferVationum^ 
circumflantiis curaq-^ rariffimarum. GieflW^Haflb- 
rum, A, MDCCIV. 
T His Author having made feveral Experiments about* 
Drowning, and being diffatisfied with the various^ 
Opinions that were held concerning it, was induced to 
write this prefent Treatife, in which he relates thefe fol- 
lowing Cafes, as Matters of Fa6t 
Having catch'd a Cat^ ( fays he ) and defigning to make 
fome fport with her, I took a Board with a hole in the 
middle, and putting the Tail through, I faftned her very 
vt^ell toic, then put her afloat into the River, and by a 
String held the Board from being carried down by the ra- 
pidity of the Stream y afterwards I fent in a well mettled 
Cur after her, who made very pleafant fport 5 but the Dog 
being tired with worrying ot the Cat, was fuckt into a 
Whirlpit, funk down, and never came up again alive. By 
the help of a Boat, after an hours fearch for him, we 
found him, and then carried him home to Diffeft him. 
The Abdomen appeared to be a little extended, as did like- 
wife the Stomach and Inteftines itl a fmall raeafure 5 but 
that which was the greateft caufe of our wonder, there was 
no Water found in either of them. The Lungs were like- 
wife extended, but in no greater a degree than the Stomach 
or 
