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Kcccired November i^, 1770. 
XXXIX. Some Expertme?ils on FiitrefaBion ; 
by F. L. F. Crell, M, D. and Profejfor 
of Chemifry at Brunl'wick. 
Read TsV*. 7, Y I R HE celebrated lord Bacon [a] has, 
i without doubt, tliewn a very great 
fagacity, in pomtingout to poftcrity, putrefadion, as a 
ubjed, worthy of making further inquiries into j and 
Certainly, as there happen daily fo many changes, 
" ot only in the inanimate, hut alfo in the animate 
World, carried on by its means ; the know- 
ledge of every thing relating to it muft clear up 
•a great many points in natural philofophy, not tho- 
roughly underliood before. But thefe inquiries ought 
to be dill oF more confcquence to mankind, as 
health depends greatly upon keeping in due bounds 
putrelaclion, which the body naturally tends to. For 
thefe rea'ons. Sir John Fringle deferves, befides his 
other eminent merits, very gieat praifes, on his hav- 
ing made many experiments on this fubjedt ; and 
medicine is indebted to him for conliderable improve- 
ments refulting Irom them. He has befides opened 
the 
[a] Nat. Hifl. .Cent, 1 V. 
