treating Perfons affeEled by burning Charcoal. 331 
ther fo fubtle a fluid may fomehow find its way into the 
circulation, and thereby arreft the vital powers; nor 
fliall I determine whether the livid hue of the body 
when brought out is changed into a paler colour by the 
atmofphere fomehow or other abforbing and freeing the 
blood from the colouring principle, as you have fhewn 
to be the cafe with blood out of the body : thefe are cu- 
rious inquiries that I fhall leave to your inveftigation. I 
have only endeavoured to colleit fails from a number of 
natives who have met with this accident themfelves, or 
have aflifted in reftoring others to life. It is fo common 
a cafe here that it is perfectly familiar to them, and they 
never call in medical afliftance. 
I am, 8cc. 
