An essay on the torpidity of animals / By Henry Reeve.

  • Henry Reeve
Date:
1809
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Credit: An essay on the torpidity of animals / By Henry Reeve. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “posed then in the open air to a greater degree of cold tlian what it experienced in the box, it is roused, and aw'akes in a fevv hours ; but falls into the state ot torpor again on being placed beneath the surface of the earth in the same manner as before : the lioht does not O tend to rouse the animal, since it is equally awakened on being exposed to the air during the night. I may here remark that I met with an accident at Vienna in the month of De- cember 1805, w'hich corroborates wdiat is commonly alleged concerning the hamster. A hamster, kept in a small cage and in a room where afire was light- ed every day, ate very heartily and ap- peared in good health for several months, without showing any signs of torpidity, except remaining rolled up in coarse wool and dried leaves, and only coming r> ^ out
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