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Animals which have been kept a long 
time without food, retain their natural tem¬ 
perature, as has appeared to me in many 
experiments. Their pulfe was very flow. 
Hyfterical affedions are preceded by a 
chillinefs or cold; nor does the heat return in 
general until the fit goes off. The pulfe 
in the mean time is in its natural ftate. 
(Sydenham, Diflert. Epift.) 
In a fainting fit, the heat difappears all 
at once, and returns almoft inftantaneoufly 
when the patient recovers. 
Paralytic limbs frequently lofe their na¬ 
tural heat, although the circulation is as 
well carried on in them, as in the reft of 
the body. (De Haen.) 
Mr. Hunter relates the hiftory of a gen¬ 
tleman, who was taken with an apoplexy, 
in whom the whole body would in an in- 
, 
ftant become extremely cold in every part, 
continue fo for feme time, and in a fliort 
time 
