were cold, the pulse not to be counted and
she was unable to swallow, or to speak; a clyster was used with turpentine
and musk and opium, with warm fomentations, but she did not recover from
that cold fit.

In this case the convulsion fit and the insanity seem to have been violent
efforts to relieve the disagreeable sensation of the paralytic stomach; and
the quick pulse, and returning fits of torpor and of orgasm, evinced the
disease to be attended with fever, though it might have been called
anorexia maniacalis, or epileptica.

4. Might not many be saved in these fevers with weak pulse for a few weeks
by the introduction of blood into a vein, once in two or three days; which
might thus give further time for the recovery of the torpid stomach? Which
seems to require some weeks to acquire its former habits of action, like
the muscles of paralytic patients, who have all their habits of voluntary
associations to form afresh, as in infancy.

If this experiment be again tried on the human subject, it should be so
contrived, that the blood in passing from the well person to the sick one
should not be exposed to the air; it should not be cooled or heated; and it
should be measured; all which may be done in the following manner. Procure
two silver pipes, each about an inch long, in the form of funnels, wide at
top, with a tail beneath, the former something wider than a swan-quill, and
the latter less than a small crow-quill. Fix one of these silver funnels by
its wide end to one end of the gut of a chicken fresh killed about four or
six inches long, and the other to the other end of the gut; then introduce
the small end of one funnel into the vein of the arm of a well person
downwards towards the hand; and laying the gut with the other end on a
water-plate heated to 98 degrees in a very warm room; let the blood run
through it. Then pressing the finger on the gut near the arm of the well
person, slide it along so as to press out one gutful into a cup, in order
to ascertain the quantity by weight. Then introduce the other end of the
other funnel into a similar vein in the arm of the sick person upwards
towards the shoulder; and by sliding one finger, and then another
reciprocally, along the chicken's gut, so as to compress it, from the arm
of the well person to the arm of the sick one, the blood may be measured,
and thus the exact quantity known which is given and received. See Class I.
2. 3. 25.

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