Essays, moral, philosophical, and stomachial, on the important science of good-living / By Launcelot Sturgeon.

  • Sturgeon, Launcelot.
Date:
1822
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    crown-lawyer combated the plan with great earnestness, and gave his decided opinion in favor of the system of hanging. ‘The Dean of Grubbleton informed us, that since he had abandoned preach- ing, except eccasionally, he had turned his attention chiefly to chemistry ; and as the curate of the parish then com- posed his sermons, he had employed himself in writing a treatise on a method of applying a new kind of gas to the distension of the stomach, by which its capacity would gradually be- come enlarged. He had made, he said, some trials on himself; and he assured us, that although his own stomach was but weak, and could seldom be prevailed. L 3