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animal would recover. With this idea, I was led to repeat my 
experiments, allowing a greater interval to take place between 
the first and second. 
EXPERIMENT IV. 
March 6th, I repeated experiment i. on a large dog. 
His eye on the right side seemed instantly affected, looked 
dull and inflamed ; he coughed and breathed with some diffi- 
culty ; the secretions from the salivary glands were much in- 
creased ; he had tremors ; these, however, I attributed partly 
to fear, as on caressing him they disappeared. He ate and 
drank very well, and had stools. Most of these symptoms 
continued but a few days, the eye becoming more clear, and 
the difficulty of breathing hardly perceptible ; he vomited, but 
only after eating, a circumstance which often takes place in 
dogs in perfect health, from devouring their food too greedily. 
Thus he continued for three weeks ; the external wound had 
healed, almost by the first intention ; he ate greedily, and 
had perfectly recovered : I supposed the regenerated nerves 
might now be performing their offices. 
EXPERIMENT V. 
March 27th, I repeated experiment 11. on the same dog, 
but did not remove quite so much of the nerves. He was 
stupid for a minute or two, and gaped for breath ; but in a few 
minutes more these symptoms went off ; in a quarter of an 
hour after he ate some boiled meat, with his usual avidity ; 
all the symptoms of the preceding operation again took place. 
