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belly, that the lungs are filled with air, rhe perfon oughtto defi from blowing, and 
fhould prefsthe breaft and belly fo asto expel the air again; and this operation may 
_ be repeated for fome time, alternately inflating and depreffing the lungs fo'as toimi- 
tate natural refpiration. But the author, after along and laborious courfe of praéti- 
cal chemiftry, has difcovereda liquid medium called the SOLAR TINCTURE, 
which poffeffing all the properties of animated blood, will, by -being poured into the 
ftomach, reanimate, and reftore fufpended life; and, for this benevolent purpofe, 
it fuperfedes ‘every other act and invention.: ‘Thofe who have ftudied the admira- 
ble conftruction of the human machine know, that its diffolution cannot naturally 
happen but by a general decay of the whole fyftem, when the vefiels become impet- 
vious to the fluids, the circulation weakened or deftroyed, and the vital organs no 
- longer able to perform their office. But, when their functions are merely fufpended 
by fome fudden fhock, it may be likened to the ftate of a watch ftopped by a fall, 
hits refumes its motion the inftant that injury is repaired. In the animal cecono- 
, “the BLOOD is the LIFE ;” therefore, if its circulation be fufpended or de- 
esa: death follows. But if the blood can be re-agitated, and 1 its circulation re- 
fumed, life will of neceffity be reftored. For this purpofe let two or three table 
fpoonfuls of the Solar Tinéture be introduced as. early as poffible into the 
ftomach, and rubbed profufely in by a warm hand, upon the {pine of the back, ' 
Joins, breaft, and region of the heart, and poured into the wound, if there 
‘be any, the warm ftimulating quality of the medicine, affifted by the exter- 
“nal heat and friction, will rouze the ftagnant blobd and juices, particularly in the 
‘rand refervoir the heart, where rarefying, prefling every way, and being refitted by 
the valves, will {well fq asto fill the flaccid right auricle of the heart, which by the 
fhock had become empty and at reft; and thus ftimulating its fibres, will put them ~ 
_ Into motion. ‘The right auricle being thus filled, and ftimulated into contraction, 
fills the ventricle; which, by this means being irritated, likewife contracts andemp-. 
ties itfelf into the pulmonary artery; and, the moment this is done, the arg 
“begins again where it left off, and the lungs, being filled by the dephlogifticated air 
- ‘contained i in the medicine, begin | to aét, and life is reftored, provided the ida and 
juices ‘are in a'fit difpofition for it, which they undoubtedly are much oftener ‘< < 
imagined. Nor is this ftimulating action of the Tincture upon - a ype ‘ale 
prifing ; for every medical man knows, or ought to know, ee oe 
‘pi ter thrown 
‘tistaken out of the body, if it ‘be pricked d wit ih . age or oe can vi = | 
‘upon it, will beat afreth, and endeavo I t its functions, thoug It | 
before i it had been ‘motionlefs. ‘No perfon ‘therefore oug sht to be ene ans 4 
tilthe energy of the blood is fo far. gone, that it can never again be agi 
icle of the heart. 
: fill and ftimulate i into  contraétion the right fms venofus and agit lkay Be" : 
To demonftrate the reanimating powers of this medicine, es sad 
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