'5:14 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



At this inflant, confidering what I 

 fhould try next, and looking round the 

 room, 1 fpied a large horizontal ba- 

 thing tub in a corner among fome lum- 

 ber. When a man is hardly befet with 

 difficulties, he will lay hold on any ex- 

 pedient to extricate himfelf. This was 

 the prefent cafe. I therefore ordered the 

 tub to be filled with warm water as foon 

 as poffible ; while this was a doing, which 

 took fomething more than a quarter of 

 an hour, the man remained in the (late 

 I have already defcribed, without any 

 other fign ot life, than fome degree of 

 natural heat, which had not hitherto left 

 him. But, in about three minutes after 

 he was put into the bath, the water round 

 the orifice of his ariii began to be tinged 

 with blood. In two njinutes more, the 

 blood ifTued out from it very perceptibly. 

 In feven minutes, he began to breath ; 

 and the flream of blood was now pro- 

 jedled five or fix inches from his arm. 



He was kept in the bath a quarter of 

 an hour ; towards the latter end of 

 which, he began to fpeak, breathed pret- 

 ty 



