“An examination of the body was made by Dr. Corfe forty-eight hours after death. In the head nothing particular was discovered; the brain was firm, and rather more vascular than natural; the blood in the sinus was partly coagulated; the heart was rather larger than natural, and was extremely loaded with fat, especially on the right side, where fat formed three-fourths of the thickness of the wall of the ventricle; the muscular tissue was extremely pale and soft, and exhibited both to the naked eye, and the eye assisted by the microscope, an extreme degree of fatty degeneration; the blood in the cavities of the heart was firmly coagulated; on both sides it was almost purely fibrinous; the clot on the right side was larger than on the left; a fibrinous clot extended down the aorta.”[113] I do not know how the bibulous paper was arranged in the inhaler in this instance, nor whether the inhaler was used with a view to regulating the amount of vapour in the inspired air. The proportion of vapour must have been small during the first ten minutes, as the patient became so slowly insensible; and judging from the result, we must conclude that the proportion was large just before the accident. The firm coagulation of the blood and separation of the fibrin were probably owing to the galvanism which was so promptly applied. I found the fibrin separated from the colouring matter of the blood in the cavities of the heart of a cat, in which shocks of electro-magnetism had been sent through the chest just after it had been killed with chloroform.