The laws and mechanics of circulation, with the principle involved in animal movement . collapse was so sud-den and unexpected as to startle me. Fully expectinghim to die outright, which I thought a matter of course,and saying to myself, I am not going to prove anythingby you, I dropped him into a waste-bucket containing a thin THE PRINCIPLE APPLIED TO RESPIRATION. 63 stratum of water and some loose, wet paper; and the nightbeing far advanced, I at once sought my couch, deemingthe experiment over and done with. The following morn-ing, however, upon glancing into the bucket, the animal, tomy un
The laws and mechanics of circulation, with the principle involved in animal movement . collapse was so sud-den and unexpected as to startle me. Fully expectinghim to die outright, which I thought a matter of course,and saying to myself, I am not going to prove anythingby you, I dropped him into a waste-bucket containing a thin THE PRINCIPLE APPLIED TO RESPIRATION. 63 stratum of water and some loose, wet paper; and the nightbeing far advanced, I at once sought my couch, deemingthe experiment over and done with. The following morn-ing, however, upon glancing into the bucket, the animal, tomy unspeakable amazement, was sitting up, fully expanded,head high, and looking at me out of his great luminous eyes,as natural to all appearances as ever, save the wound in histhroat (Fig. 20). That thin stratum of water in the bucket,together with the loose wet paper, under which he couldcreep to keep himself moist, were the best possible conditionsfor promoting recovery after the operation, though I was notconscious of this at the time when I threw him into it with a Fig. 19. Fig.
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