Note 10 — A COMMENTARY UPON THE PRECEDING OBJECTS OF INQUIRY:
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Dr. Badenoch, in a work on the diseases of India, ascertained by repeated and accurate experiments, that the heat of those who die apoplectic from a “coup de soleil,” or “insolation,” as it is termed, continues for a considerable time several degrees higher than the natural standard; in one case, the heart felt to his hand as if it had been five or six degrees higher than in life and health, notwithstanding the body had been dead twenty-four hours.