could not have struggled, as
the grass was not pressed or bent near them; I have also seen two horses
shot through the cerebellum, who never once drew in their legs after they
first stretched them out, but died instantaneously; in a similar manner the
lungs seem to be rendered instantly inanimate by the fumes of burning
sulphur.

The lungs may be sometimes primarily affected with contagious matter
floating in the atmosphere as well as the stomach, as mentioned in article
9. of this Supplement. But probably this may occur much less frequently,
because the oxygene of the atmosphere does not appear to be taken into the
blood by animal absorption, as the saliva in the stomach, but passes
through the moist membranes into the blood, like the ethereal fluids of
electricity or heat, or by chemical attraction, and in consequence the
contagious matter may be left behind; except it may sometimes be absorbed
along with the mucus; of which however in this case there appeared no
symptoms.

The tonsils are other organs liable to receive contagious matter, as in the
small-pox, scarlet-fever, and in other sensitive inirritated fevers; but no
symptom of this appeared here, as the tonsils were at no time of the fever
inflamed, though they were in this child previously uncommonly large.

The pain of the forehead does not seem to have been of the internal parts
of the head, because the nerves, which serve the stomach, are not derived
from the anterior part of the brain; but it seems to have been owing to a
torpor of the external membranes about the forehead from their direct
sympathy with those of the stomach; that is, from the deficient excitement
of the sensorial power of association; and seemed in some measure to be
relieved by the emetics and blisters.

The pulsations of the heart were weaker and in consequence quicker than
natural, owing to their direct sympathy with the torpid peristaltic motions
of the stomach; that is to the deficient excitement of the sensorial power
of association.

The action of the cutaneous capillaries and absorbents were stronger than
natural, as appeared by the perpetual heat and dryness of the skin; which
was owing to their reverse sympathy with the heart and arteries. This
weaker and quicker action of the heart and arteries, and the stronger
action of the cutaneous capillaries and absorbents, continued throughout
the disease, and may be said to have constituted the fever, of which the
torpor of the st