STUPOR, a numbness in any part of the body, whether occasioned by ligatures obstrucling the blood's motion, by the palsy, or the like.
best, as the grains of these powders are more perishable and brittle than those of sand. They will not therefore be employed, unless for the sake of evasion, or for want of sand: in this latter case, the finer powder ought to be washed away.
(x) “ This and the next paragraph is inserted with a view to evasions, as well as to suggest the easier and cheaper methods which may be adopted in certain circumstances, by artists who understand the principles which I endeavoured to teach.
(y) “ This practice is noticed, as the remedy which may be used for the defects arising from evasive measures, and as the method of giving spongy incrustations containing bone-ashes the greatest degree of hardness.”