Dr. Currie's Account , &c. 
2Z4f 
certainty, under the tongue with the lips shut, at the axilla 
with the arm close to the side, and in the hollow between the 
scrotum and the thigh ; every other part of the surface is 
liable to variation and uncertainty. It is evident that of these 
three methods, the first only can be employed (as far as I can 
discover) when the trunk of the body is immersed in water ; 
and even when the naked body is exposed to the cold air, the 
first method seems the best, the heat remaining most steady 
under the tongue : the axilla is the next best in order, and 
the worst, the lower part of the groin ; for the scrotum and 
the parts of generation lose their heat on the application of 
cold more speedily perhaps than any other part of the body* 
the extremities not excepted. 
N. B. The water employed in the experiments related, con- 
tained salt in the proportion of one to twenty-four. 
Instead of saying that the men saved were most of them na- 
tives of Carolina, I find I ought to have said, men long accus- 
tomed to that country and other warm climates, but not most 
of them natives. 
