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time become extremely hot. Thefe changes 
continued for feveral hours without any 
marked alteration in the pulfe. (Phil. 
Tranf. A. 1775.) 
I have found (fays Doctor Currie) in 
certain difeafes greater and fuddener vari¬ 
ations than any mentioned, from the ap¬ 
plication of cold, very gentle in degree, 
and momentary in duration. (Account of 
the remarkable effects of a Ihipwreck— 
Phil. Tranf. 1792.) 
A man, whofe body is in evaporation, 
refills cold more powerfully when a blad¬ 
der of warm water is applied to his fto- 
mach. For this beautiful and interefting 
obfervation, we are alfo indebted to 
Doctor Currie. 
The power of refilling cold, or of gene¬ 
rating heat, increafes confiderably when the 
nervous fyllem is excited, and in orgafm. 
As in almoft all the phenomena which 
have 
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