V. Fire-eating magicians. Ching Ling Foo and Chung
Ling Soo.--Fire-eaters employed by magicians:
The Man-Salamander, 1816.-Mr. Carlton,
Professor of Chemistry, 1818.--Miss Cassillis, aged
nine, 1820. The African Wonder, 1843.--Ling
Look and Yamadeva die in China during Kellar's
world tour, 1877.--Ling Look's double, 1879.--
Electrical effects, The Salambos.--Bueno Core.--Del
Kano.--Barnello.--Edwin Forrest as a heat-resister
--The Elder Sothern as a fire-eater.--The Twilight
of the Art

VI. The Arcana of the fire-eaters: The formula of
Albertus Magnus.--Of Hocus Pocus.--Richardson's
method.--Philopyraphagus Ashburniensis.--To
breathe forth sparks, smoke and flames.--To spout
natural gas.--Professor Sementini's discoveries.--
To bite off red-hot iron.--To cook in a burning cage.
--Chabert's oven.--To eat coals of fire.--To drink
burning oil.--To chew molten lead.--To chew
burning brimstone.--To wreathe the face in flames.
--To ignite paper with the breath.--To drink boiling
liquor and eat flaming wax

VII. The spheroidal condition of liquids.--Why the hand
may be dipped in molten metals.--Principles of heat
resistance put to practical uses: Aldini, 1829.--In
early fire-fighting.--Temperatures the body can
endure