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of the FLUIDS of the HUMAN BODY
2. A cadaCerotis odour exhaled, Whicli is specifieand assedis the nostriis 3. The wbole sui face of lbe boo acquires a yellow tinge, interspersed, here and there, Willi greenissa, livid, and blach spois. These bydegrees burst, and emit an intolerable putridfetor, destructive to mala. . At tenglli, the swelling, after a mort time, sub des, the ruptured spois dis harge a Cada Verous fames, by Whicli the whole body is Changed into a brown, or greenisti pultaceouSmass; and the cadaverous stench is again emi ted, though weaker. s. This putrid masis at le'gili dries into a brownisti, blach, friable substance. This Change is essected, for the most part in eighteen monilis, and at longest with in three yea PS. Os ali the paris of the body, the bones resistdecomposition the longest, on account of theirearthy compages ; but at lenglii they cive Way. AUGUSTUS, When lic vis ted the tonab of
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sis 'CULMICO PHYSIOLOGICAL Doctrine ALEXANDER THE GREAT, soland the body, to ali appearance, in the in ost perfect 'state os preservation; ora the sightest touch, however, the unconquered hero, the former Alexander, crumbled into dust lThe deeper an animal body is buried in theearlli, the more soWly it putrefies , in a calcareol S, more speedily than in an argilla eos 1; but thequichest os ali in a mos fano soli. I f the sandys il be very dry, and friabie, defended si omthe air and ratia, the gases constantly emitted, a re absorbed by the sand; and the body, in this state,
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of a peculiar oti, and volatile aikali. This changelahes place When a number of bodies are so buried together, Without any intermediate earth, that thegaseous fluids, whicli are emit ted, are not sufferedto es cape . in this case, orae portion of the hydrogene combines With carbone, and fornas Oil; the ollier portion, With azote, is changed intovolatile athali, producing, When mixed, a sapo-naceOUS masS ; aS WaS ObserVed in the burying-ground at Paris.
carbonaled in Unimbis azr, Whicli aris es si omthe oti and decomposed animal gluten.
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greenim tinge of the paris. 6. Os putrid air, Whicli se enas to be generaledfrona the chemicat union os carbonated infamamable air with the agolic. This miasma is themost noxious to man, by inducing putrid sever; and is that whicli generates the specisic Odour, whicli is called cadaverOUS.
The PROX1ΜΑΤE CAUSE of putrefaction, is thecessation of the aditon of the vitai principie; hence, the laws of vitat a niu cease to operate, and those
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of chemicat attraction take place; hich give rise toti te products of putrefaDion Just mentioned. To I rug, may be defined the property of adting frona an intrinsic power; heiace the lise of an animal body appears to be threei ld. i. Iis Chemical l e, hicli consi sis in that attraciation of the elements, by Whicli the vitai principio, diffused through the sblids and fluitis, defends ali the paris of the body frona putrefaction. In this sense it may be suid, that every atom of our body lives chemi lj, and that life is destroyed by putrefaction alone. a. In P s cal life, whicli confisis in the irritabilityof the paris. This physical proper ty remalias
for so me time after dealli. Thus the heari, orini estines, removed frona the body whilst still arm, Contradi thenaseives on the ppplicationos a stimulus. In like manner, the serpent, Oreel, heing cut into pleces, euch pari moves and palpitates for a long timc aster ard S.IIence these paris may be suid to litve, si scalidi, as long as they continue Narm and sost.
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soli of our earlli, by absorbing the prodiadis of putrefaction, is rendered blach, and abound s insertilily; and heiace be comes the principat s odos planis. It is evident, theres ore, that the bodyof man, by death and putrefaction, does notperista, but only loses iis organic strueture, by a continuat circulation of the elements; the destruc tion os one, be coming the generating cause of
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adopted by tbe AUT HOR. Acid sulphuris.
Carbonated hydrogene gas. Infammabie gas quisb Garcoal. Carbone. Pure char al.
Impure atris Phlogisticated ais. Phlogisticated gas.. mospherical mopheis. Infammabis gas mith chartas.