so completely the power of suspending or at least of diminishing the action of the heart, that its pulsations were imperceptible.

Lastly, the character of the death, as to violence or gradual extinction, is often exhibited in the physiognomy of the dead. Where it has taken place during a convulsion, or by agents that have forcibly and suddenly arrested respiration or innervation, the countenance may be livid, the jaws clenched, the tongue protruded and caught between the teeth, and the eyes forced, as it were, from their sockets; but usually in death from old age or even from acute and tormenting disease, whatever distortion or mark of suffering may have existed prior to dissolution, subsides after the spirit has passed, and the features exhibit a placidity of expression, singularly contrasting with their previously excited condition. For effect, however, the poet and the painter suit their descriptions of death to the character of the individual whom they are depicting. The tyrant falls convulsed and agonized, whilst the tender and delicate female is described to have progressively withered, till

"At last,

Without a groan, or sigh, or glance to show

A parting pang, the spirit from her past:

And they who watch'd her nearest could not know
The very instant, till the change that cast

Her sweet face into shadow, dull and slow

Glazed o'er her eyes—the beautiful, the black,
Oh! to possess such lustre, and then lack."

Byron, Don Juan, Canto IV.

Warwick's description of the frightful physiognomy of Duke Humphrey, after death from suffocation, is scarcely overdrawn:—

"But see his face is black and full of blood;
His eyeballs farther out than when he liv'd,
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man:

His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling:
His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd

And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdu'd.
Look on the sheets, his hair you see is sticking:
His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged,
Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodg'd.

It cannot be but he was murder'd here:
The least of all these signs were probable."

King Henry VI. p. 2. Act. III.

How different is this picture from that of the countenance of the young being, who has gradually sunk to death in the manner above described. The beauty is unextinguished, and the paleness and lividity of death have taken the place of the colours of life; yet the wonted physiognomy may remain.

"Hush'd were his Gertrude's lips! but still their bland
And beautiful expression seem'd to melt

With love that could not die!"

CAMPBELL.

Perhaps one of the most beautiful and accurate pictures, drawn. by the immortal Byron, is his description of the serenity of countenance observable in most fresh corpses; an expression which, by association, is deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed.

He, who hath bent him o'er the dead,
Ere the first day of death is fled;
Before decay's effacing fingers

Have swept those lines where beauty lingers:
And mark'd the mild, angelic air,

The rapture of repose that's there:

The fix'd yet tender traits, that streak

The languor of the placid cheek;

And but for that sad, shrouded eye,

That fires not,—wins not,—weeps not now:

And but for that chill, changeless brow,
Where cold obstruction's apathy

Appals the gazing mourner's heart,
As if to him it could impart

The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon:
Yes but for these and these alone,

Some moments, ay, one treach'rous hour,
He still might doubt the tyrant's power.
So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd

The first, last look by death reveal'd.

secre-

interstitial, II. 58, II. 166.

of lymph, II. 25.

of recrementitial secretions,

of solids, II. 166.
venous, II. 35, 53.

Abstinence, deaths from, 465.
effects of, 464.

Academia del cimento, experiments of
the, on the gizzards of birds, 428.
Acid, acetic, where found, 19.

18.

benzoic, where found, 19.
lactic, where found, 19.
lithic, where found, 17.
muriatic, where found, 14.
nutritive properties of, 448.
oxalic, where met with, 19.
phosphoric, where met with, 13.
sulpho-cyanic, where met with,

- uric, where met with, 17.

xanthic, where met with, 17.
Adipocire, how formed, 288.
Adipous exhalation, II. 206.
Admiration, expression of, 407.
Adolescence, age of, II. 397.
Affections, what, 252.
African race, II. 467.
Age, critical, II. 279, II. 401.
Ages, the, II. 384.

Air, atmospheric, properties of, II. 73.
expulsion of, from the intestines,

Albumen, where met with, 15.

concrete, where met with, 15.
liquid, where met with, 15.
nutritive properties of, 449.

Aliments, classification of, 447.
Alphabet, how formed, 389.
Anaphrodisia, II. 184.
Androgynous being, II. 256.
Angle, facial, 256.

occipital, 258.

Anguish with bodily suffering, expres.
sion of, 406.

Anhelation, II. 93.

Animalcules, spermatic, II. 267.
Animalculists, II. 306.
Animality, what, 7.

Animals and vegetables, differences be-
tween, 7.

cold-blooded, what, II. 171.
warm-blooded, II. 171.

Appetite, physiology of the, 461.
American race, II. 468.

Anatomie vivante, referred to, 27.
Antipathies, II. 439.

Apparatus, what, 26.

Arsenuretted hydrogen, effects of the
respiration of, II. 113.

Arteries, circulation in the, II. 139.
described, II. 123.
locomotion of, II. 154.

Asiatic race, II. 468.
Association, effects of, II. 460.
Atrabiliary capsules, II. 29.
Attitudes, 340.

erect, 340.

horizontal, 347.
on one foot, 346.
on the knees, 346.
sitting, 346.

Audition, 113, 125.

Aura seminis, what, II. 267.
insufficient for effecting

fecundation, II. 292.
Australian race, II. 469.
Axis, cerebro-spinal, 91.
Azote,effects of the respiration of, II.112.
protoxide of, respiration of the,

II. 110.

source of, in the food, 443.
where found, 13.

II. refers to the Second Volume.

Blood, agency of the, in realth and dis- Catamenia, what, II. 279.

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