Note 228 — RESEARCH IV.

See Dr. Beddoes’s Considerations, part 1. page 26. His observations in the note in the last section, will likewise apply here.—Is not healthy living action dependant upon a certain equilibrium between the principles supplied to the blood by the pulmonary veins from respiration and by the lymphatics from absorption? Does not sensibility more immediately depend upon respiration? Deprive an animal under stimulation, of air, and it instantly dies; probably if absorption could be prevented, it would likewise speedily die. It would be curious to try whether intoxication from fermented liquors cannot be prevented by breathing during their operation, an atmosphere deprived of part of its oxygene.