The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-09-20

0nif Dail drop. L ne odSIs o! 0odireyS
cordial being laudanum, its indiscrimin-
ale use has no doubt destroyed the lives
Of many thousand children. OF late
years, this quack medicine has nearly
fallen into disuse.
cit has been sometimes asserted, anC
sometimes denied, that the evaporation
from the surface Of the human body was
the Cause why it remained al nearly the
same temperature, Chat Of blood heat)
dough The air around it was much hot
ter. Inc following experiment seems
10 place IBIS matter in d clear point oil
view:-One Of those porous vessels.
called an aldrrazGs, which permits evap-
oiaii"n from every part Of lis surface,
t1gether with two wet sponges and
frog, were ALI placed in an oven, the
Temperature of which varied between
1875 and l42 degrees Fahr. Before be-
Ing placed ia the oven, the temperature
OF the alarrazas and of the spongss was
somewhat ABOVE blood heat, While that
of the frog, like all cold-biooded ami
Enais, was considerably below it. 10 The
course ct a quarter Of an hour the two
sponges, the carihen jar, and the frog,
had all nearly The same temperature,
and, what rs very rcmai ksbie, this was
about the ordinary temperature Of hot
bEooaed animals and, during two hours,
all these substances remained at The
same temperature. The temperature
ct the frog, as might have been expect
ed, rose; uut the temperature of the
sponges aad jar, quite contrary 10 ex-
pectajion, fell all remained 70" cen
siderable period much below the tenn
perature Of the stove, and the temper
ature which they preserved was the or
dIuafy temperature Of hot blooded ami
mais.-" Thus" says DR.. Edwards,
irom whose book we quote this, 6 The
same general cause, evaporation, is of
itself sufficient TO preserve the temper
allure Of animals, and OF matter, below
the temperature Of the air, when that
exceeds the temperature of warm
biooded animals.
This experiment accounts for the
power which man has, of bearing the
temperature of different climates, aud Of
resisting the enormous heat Of some oc-
cnpations. Thus sugar bakers, and ar
,lsans engaged in other trades, are fre.
quenily, or when at work, constantly
exposed to a heat far greater chan that
Of the most burning climate Of the globe.
Thus, too, we are told that Messrs.
| IIllet aud Duhamel, French philoso-
pliers, being at La Rochefoucault in
1868, the daughter of baker went, in
their presence, into an oven, the tenn
perature of-which they estimated at
upwards of gro degrees Fahr., or far
beyond the boiling point Of water. She
remained in this extreme heat about
twelve minutes, without suffering any
Inconvenience from il. This expert
ment was afterwards repeated with "a
nolher girl, with the same result. At "A
later period, DR.. Fordyce, the celebra-
ted English physician, remained for Il
considerable time in a room heated by
stoves 10 the Temperature Of o6O de-
grees FAIR, The lock of the door,
his watch, and keys lying ou the table,
burned his hand, an egg became hard,
and though his pulse beat l39 in min
ute, thermometer held in his mouth
was only two or three degrees higher
than ordinary. He pcrspired profuse-
! ly; aud The experiment showed that
i the evaporation from the surface Of his
body, like that from The alarrazas and
| sponges, was sufficient, in the midst OF
this great heat, to keep his tempera-
ture on level with that of the human
body on ordinary occasions.
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| The influence OF iniemperance in
drink on the animal spirits, is Justly de.
preciated by oil who feel the degrade
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