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198 CULPEPER'’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
upon a fowl], lamb,:cat, dog, or other animal, by plunging them under water uatil 
they ate.apparently dead, or piercing them through the head, orany: par? of the bo 
dy except the heart; by/!fuffocation, or an electrical fhock ; for fudden death, how- 
foever it happens, whether by drowning or otherwife, is much the fame ag to its ef- 
fects on the vital organs, confequently they are all to be treated in a fimilar manner. 
This medicine is likewife'an abfolutecure for the {curvy, in its moft advanced fta- 
' ges; and is a fovereign remedy for relaxations, debility, laffitude, tremors, finking 
of the fpirits, and all thofe nervous affections which harrafs and opprefs the weak, 
fedentary, and delicate, and are often the confequences of high living, and luxuriant 
indulgencies, without bodily exercife and frefh air. In all thefe cafes, the Solar 
Tincture is calculated to warm and fteady the cold tremulous nerves ; to fheath and 
invigorate the mufcular fy {tem; to animate the {pi pirits ; and renovate the whole man, 
whereby the chill watery fluids become rich and balfamic, and the circulation re- 
_ fumes its healthful ftate. It may be had of every ftationer who ae my works, 
Or CONVULSION PItTs 
~ CONVULSION fits often conftitute the laft {cene of acute or chronic difor- 
gee When this is the cafe, there can remain but fmall hopes of the patient’s re- 
‘covery after expiring ina fit. But when a perfon, who appears to be in perfeét 
‘health, is fuddenly feized with a convulfion fic, and feems to expire, fome attempts 
ought always to be made to reftore him to life. Infants are moft liable to conyul- 
fions, and are often carried off very fuddenly by one or more fits about the- time of _ 
teething. ‘There are many well-a uthenticated accounts of infants having been re- 
ftored tolife, after they had to all appearance expired in convulfions ; but we fhall 
only relate the following inftance mentioned by Dr. Johnfon in his pamphlet on the 
practicability of recovering perfons vifibly dead: In the parifh of St. Clemens, at 
Colchefter, a child of fix months old, lying upon its mother’s Jap, having had. the 
Ddreaft, was feized with a ftrong corivulfion fit, which lafted fo long, and ended with 
- fo total a ‘privation of r motion in the body, lungs, and pulfe, that. it was deemed 
° , dead. Tew was pea ftripped, laid out, the paffing-bell ordered to | 
— he child, hearing of i its dies death, hattened t to ke houfe, and upon exa- 
1 “t Ma it not cold, its joints limber, and fancied that a glafs fhe 
hand nofe was a little damped with ‘the breath ; upon which fhe 
in her lap, fat down before the fire, rubbed it, and kept it.in gentle 
agitation. Ina ‘quarter of an hour fhe felt the heart beginto beat faintly; fhe then 
put a little of the mother’s milk into its mouth, continued to rub its palms and 
foles, found the child begin to move, and the milk was {wallowed ; and in another _ 
quarter -of an hour the had the. fatisfaction of reftoring to its difconfolate mother the 
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