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Page 68 - Nor do I ever find myself the worse for writing immediately after meals, nor is my understanding ever clearer, nor am I apt to be drowsy, the food I take being in too small a quantity to send up any fumes to the brain. Oh, how advantageous it is to an old man to eat but little! Accordingly I, who know it, eat but just enough to keep body and soul together.
Page 85 - I had led for many years past, had so well united, harmonized, and disposed my humours, as not to leave it in their power to ferment to such a degree, refused to be either bled or purged. I just caused my leg and arm to be set, and suffered myself to be rubbed with some oils, which they said were proper on the occasion. Thus, without using any kind of remedy, I recovered as I thought I should, without feeling the least alteration in myself, or any other bad effects from the accident; a thing which...
Page 42 - He swallowed it with difficulty, and died immediately. In the pocket of the unfortunate man was found a journal written in pencil, singular in its kind, and remarkable as a narrative of his feelings and sentiments. It begins thus: — " The generous philanthropist who shall one day find me here after my death, is requested to inter me; and, in consideration of this service, to keep my clothes, purse, knife, and letter-case. I moreover observe that I am no suicide, but have died of hunger, because,...
Page 40 - Garman asserts it to be a sufficient food for the greedy spider, and tells us that, though the spider will ravenously devour flies and other prey whenever he can seize it, he will not starve upon the spare regimen of air alone. Latreille confirms this assertion by an experiment of his own. He stuck a spider to a piece of cork and cut him off from all food whatever for four months; at the end of which period he appeared to be as lively as at first. Mr. Baker, in like manner, confined a beetle under...
Page 35 - I have myself obtained from the stomach of a crow. After this operation, not only all desire to eat was removed, but a degree of disgust was excited by seeing others eat. He, however, was prevailed upon to take a little milk and bread, which, in a very short time, ran into the acetous fermentation, indicated by flatulence and acid eructations.
Page 91 - In the year 1556, after a lapse of 20 years, he was found by the French, who took the citadel, and to the astonishment of all the inhabitants of Vercelli, preserved like Lazarus from the tomb, he walked through the city, with his sword by his side, without stiffness of his joints, without the aid of a stick.
Page 91 - I enjoy; how I mount my horse without any assistance, or advantage of situation; and how I not only ascend a single flight of stairs, but climb up...
Page 85 - Staunton says on this subject: -It is, however, to be remarked that the Chinese recover from all kinds of accidents more rapidly, and with fewer symptoms of any kind of danger, than most people in Europe. The constant and quick recovery from considerable and alarming wounds has been observed likewise to take place among the natives of Hindostan. The European surgeons have been surprised at the easy cure of sepoys in the English service, from accidents accounted extremely formidable.
Page 35 - ... fluid. A supposition which seems to be confirmed by the following experiment. A person in good health was prevailed upon to abstain from eating for more than twenty hours, and further to increase the appetite by more exercise than usual. At the end of this time he was very hungry, but instead of eating, excited vomiting by drinking warm water, and irritating the fauces. The water returned mixed only with a ropy fluid, such as the gastric fluid is described to be by Spallanzani, or as I have myself...
Page 145 - ... in which not only large quantities of a concretion of a similar description were voided, but upon examination after death, which took place perhaps six months after any magnesia had been taken, a collection, supposed to be from. four to six pounds, was found embedded in the head of the colon, which was of course much distended.