Excerpt from The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, Vol. 6: Series the Third; September, 1805 The experiments on the temperature of blood seem nearly the same as those formerly made. The experiment to prove the increase of volume ofa contracting muscle, shews nothing. It is impossible to say if the same quantity of' muscle were in the vessel, or not, during the contraction and relaxation. There seem strong reasons to think the quantity varied. This question, which we long ago -ln tended to determine, would be more fairly tried by immers ing in a vessel of water a newly amputated limb, which:2 might be readily made to contract by the galvanic and the. Change of bulk would be estimated accurately by the. Help of a tube fitted to theside of the vessel, and turned up. We recommend this experiment to Mr. Carlisle's attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.