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352 SURPRISING FACULTY OF SUSTAINING HEATi
dead for the present, whom it pleased God to recover
again to life, to magnify his mercies, and to declare his
wonders.
SURPRISING FACULTY OF SUSTAINING HEAT.
A Spaniard, who is now in Paris, has lately filled almost
every mouth with a topic of conversation.-—-He is a young
man, a native of Toledo in Spain, 23 years of age, and
free of any apparent peculiarities which can announce any
thin^ remarkable in the organization of the skin ; after ex-
amination, one would be rather disposed to conclude a
peculiar softness than that any hardness or thickness of the
cuticle existed, either naturally or from mechanical causes.
Nor was there any circumstance to indicate that the per-
son had been previously rubbed with any matter capable
of resisting the operation of the agents with which he was
brought in contact.
This man bathed for the space of six minutes, and with-
out any injury either to his sensibility or the surface of the'
skin, his legs in oil, heated at 97° of Reaumur, (250^ deg.
of Fahrenheit;) and with the same oil, at the same degree
of heat, he washed his face and superior extremities.-—Fie
held for the same space of time, and with as little incon-
veniencej his legs in a solution of muriate of soda, heated
to 102 of the same scale, (261 4 Fahr.) He stood on and
rubbed the soles of his feet with a bar of iron heated to a
white heat; in this state he held the iron in his hands^ and
rubbed the surface of his tongue.
He gargled his mouth with concentrated sulphuric and
nitric acids, without the smallest injury or discoloration ;
the nitrous acid changed the cuticle to a yellow colour;
with the acids in this state he rubbed his hands and arms.
All these experiments wmre continued long enough to prove
their inefficiency to produce any impression. It is said on
un question-
dead for the present, whom it pleased God to recover
again to life, to magnify his mercies, and to declare his
wonders.
SURPRISING FACULTY OF SUSTAINING HEAT.
A Spaniard, who is now in Paris, has lately filled almost
every mouth with a topic of conversation.-—-He is a young
man, a native of Toledo in Spain, 23 years of age, and
free of any apparent peculiarities which can announce any
thin^ remarkable in the organization of the skin ; after ex-
amination, one would be rather disposed to conclude a
peculiar softness than that any hardness or thickness of the
cuticle existed, either naturally or from mechanical causes.
Nor was there any circumstance to indicate that the per-
son had been previously rubbed with any matter capable
of resisting the operation of the agents with which he was
brought in contact.
This man bathed for the space of six minutes, and with-
out any injury either to his sensibility or the surface of the'
skin, his legs in oil, heated at 97° of Reaumur, (250^ deg.
of Fahrenheit;) and with the same oil, at the same degree
of heat, he washed his face and superior extremities.-—Fie
held for the same space of time, and with as little incon-
veniencej his legs in a solution of muriate of soda, heated
to 102 of the same scale, (261 4 Fahr.) He stood on and
rubbed the soles of his feet with a bar of iron heated to a
white heat; in this state he held the iron in his hands^ and
rubbed the surface of his tongue.
He gargled his mouth with concentrated sulphuric and
nitric acids, without the smallest injury or discoloration ;
the nitrous acid changed the cuticle to a yellow colour;
with the acids in this state he rubbed his hands and arms.
All these experiments wmre continued long enough to prove
their inefficiency to produce any impression. It is said on
un question-