33° Dr. guthrie on the Ruffian Manner of 
limb by means of friftion with fnow. But what is lin- 
gular in the cafe of people apparently deprived of life in 
the manner treated of is, that the body is much warmer 
when brought out of the room than at the inftant life is 
reftored, and that they awake cold and Ihivering. The 
colour of the body is alfo changed from a livid red to its 
natural complexion, which, together with fome other 
circumftances, would almoft lead one to fufpetft, that 
they are reftored to life by the fnow and cold water fome 
how or other freeing them from the load of phlogifton 
with which the fyftem feems to be replete; for although 
the firft application of cold water to the human body 
produces heat, yet, if often repeated in a very cold at- 
mofphere, it then cools inftead of continuing to heat, 
juft as the cold bath does when a perfon remains too long 
in it. 
In Ihort, I think it is altogether a curious fubject, whe- 
ther you take into confideration the mode of a£tion of 
the principle emitted by burning charcoal, and our phlo- 
gifticated cruft ; or the operation of the fnow and cold 
water. However, I ftiall by no means take upon me 
to decide, whether the dangerous fymptoms related 
above are produced by the air in the room being fo fatu- 
rated with phlogifton as to be unable to take up the pro- 
per quantity from the lungs, which occafions a fur- 
charge in the fyftem, according to your theory, or whe- 
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