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termed epiglottis, over which (excellent anatomist!) is a lid or 
valve, placed there to.defend the passage into the tt/r-tube, from 
the entrance of victuals, drink, &c. For upon the descent of 
any such substances this valve shuts down like a trap-door, and 
they pass over it. No sooner, however, are they gone past, then 
up rises the valve again, lying back towards the mouth on the 
palate, and being very large in the horse, accounts for the 
gulps with which he takes in water, and his peculiar mode of 
feeding.’’ (p. 88.) We think we see our standard anatomists 
conning over this most scientific and eloquent delineation. ' ; 
Amphyon blushed as red 
As any glowing flame; 
And Orpheus durst not shew his face, 
But hid his head for shame.” 
The pugilist and the hunter know the full value of second 
wind,” but, possibly they cannot explain the process by which 
it is acquired. Hear Mr. J. Hinds. Take a pair of bellows, 
and having introduced the nossle tolerably well into the wind¬ 
pipe of a sheep, tie it round with a cobbler’s endj then blowing 
hard, the lights or lungs at first give out the whole of the air 
that has been driven in, and may be inflated to an enormous 
size. Out of this may be derived a more accurate knowledge 
of what it is termed ^ second wind’ among sportsmen when the 
animal or man has made great exertions so as to fill all the cells 
of his lungs to the utmost, and then relaxes from the labour, he 
finds himself renovated, the cells being rendered more capable of 
distension and expulsion, when each inspiration and expiration 
also occupies more time and less labour.” (p 91.) 
The bear however is the most curious experimentalist. 
Seizing the dog between his paws, he squeeses him up till he 
gasps for breath, when bruin, being muzzled, rams his nose 
tight into the dog’s mouth, and blowing with all his might you 
may hear the wind whizzing : the dog syvells all over, by reason 
of the air entering the cellular membrane, and he dies unless 
timely pulled oflf.” (p. 92.) 
But we will spare the intellectual optics of our readers, and 
not blast them with the excess of light, which blazes from this 
most sublime system of physiology. 
In pathology our author is not less happy. Listen to him on 
gastritis. At times a specific inflammation takes place, and 
communicates itself in four or five days to the w’hole of that 
surface, taking its course downwards or upwards according to thA 
orifice that may be most affected; this being all the way down 
through the intestines, blocking up the influx qf gall, and caus- 
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