1809.) 
which it has proved highly injurious. In an 
advertisement to a fourth edition of this ac- 
count, he remarks, ‘* it is not my disposi- 
tion to be uncandid, nor my wish to injure the 
circumstances of any man; but whatsoever, 
in the form of medicine, appears likely to 
produce a public injury, Iam determined to 
expose. I have made quacks of all denomi- 
nations my sworn enemies: but what medical 
man of honour and reputation would wish 
to be upon tolerable terms with the murde- 
yers of the human race?” Inthe summer of 
this year (1774) an association of thirty gen- 
tlemen,. one half of whom were the friends 
of Dr. Cogan, and the other of Mr. Hawes, 
formed themselves into a society, whose ob- 
ject, like that of Amsterdam, was to promote 
the recovery of persons who were apparently 
dead by drowning ;:and like that society also, 
their views were at first confined to the reco- 
very of drowned. Other respectable ames 
were soon added to the list; and successful 
cases began to increase its numbers and repu- 
tation. Dr. Cogan, during his continuance 
in England, prepared the reports of the so- 
ciety from year to year; that he did it with 
judgment, would be unnecessary to say, as he 
¢an do nothing but with the hand of a mas~ 
ter. During this time, Mr. Hawes was most 
zealously active in promoting the views of 
the infant institution: but his wish to pro- 
mote the welfare and happiness of others was 
limited or confined to one point. Karly in 
the year 1776, he published an examination 
of Wesley’s primitive physic, a work full of 
_ the grossest absurdities, and the most dange- 
Yous remedies ; and which were likely to be 
destructive of the/lives of many of those over 
whom the name of Wesley had influence. 
This examination, which passed through 
three large editions, it is believed, has been 
very serviceable in promoting the humane and 
disinterested views of its author. About this 
time he received his diploma of M.D. Inthe 
autumn of this year he gave his first course 
of lectures on suspended animation. The 
~ Doctor’s object in delivering these lectures 
was to excite an investigation of the subject 
in all its branches, and particularly to lead 
the minds of medical students to it, and to 
induce them. to examine into, and pay the 
most minute attention to, all the received 
signs of life, in cases of suspended animation, 
whether from drowning, suffocation by the 
prs syncope: inebriation, or trance; from . 
xious vapuurs, intense cold, and even light-, 
ning. These lectures were continued for se~ 
veral years, and answered. the very valuable 
purpose of turning the attention of many of 
his hearers to this benevolent, novel, and in-, 
teresting subject. Jn 1777, the Doctor first 
published his ‘* Address to the. Public on 
premature Death and premature Interment.” 
At a considerable expence he distributed se- 
ven thousand of this address in the course of 
afew months. He alsooffered the reward of 
“one guinea to any nurse, or other attendant, 
v 
, 
Account of the lateW. Hatves, M. D- 
597 | 
on any child or grown pe returning to 
life by their humane attention} provided the 
fact was ascertained by a gentleman of the’ 
faculty, dr attested by three creditable per- 
sons. The Doctor asserts, and no one who 
knew him can doubt it, that his view in in- 
curring such heavy expences was the hope of 
exciting an universal attention to the subject 
of somuch importance to mankind, Some 
time in the year 1778, a more active post in 
the management of the affairs of' the Hu- 
mane Society devolved on him, by his being 
chosen register. This was stiJ] increased in 
the year 1780, when Dr. Cogan returned to 
Holland. On this event Dr. Hawes greatly 
regretted the:loss of so able a colleague, and 
laments that the task of arranging and pre~ 
paring the annual reports of the socicty 
should have ‘* fallen into hands of such in- 
ferior ability ; but hopes that his zeal will 
compensate for the want of ability, that the 
important cause then intrusted to his sole 
care might not be permitted to languish. 
Those only who have witnessed the labour 
and fatigue which the multiplied, concerns of 
the society necessarily impose on him who is” 
entrusted with the entire direction of them, 
can justly appreciate the value and extent @f 
his unceasing exertions for promoting a cause 
so near his heart, and with ‘which his own 
happiness, as well as the happiness of others, 
was interwoven. The Doctor remarks, that® 
soon after this time the execution of the re- 
ports of this institution became more complex 
and intricate. As the instances of resuscita- 
tion multiplied, he observes that new and 
improved modes of treatment suggested them- 
selves to skilful practitioners; and that other 
species of apparent death than those hitherto 
treated, were also brought within the reach 
of art. These, circumstances arising from 
the liberal spirit and unexampled fervour ma- 
nifested by the medical assistants, in the pro- 
secution of their life-saving views, concurred 
to render the task operose and complicated. 
But, he adds, all these difficulties sunk be~ 
fore the pleasing contemplation of the im- 
mense good that would. result to mankind 
from it. In 1781, Dr. Hawes published 
“¢ An Address to the King and Parliament of 
Great Britain, on preserving the Lives of the 
Inhabitants, and on regulating the “Bills of 
Mortality.” ‘fo the third ‘edition of this 
work were made very considerable additions 5 
particularly ¢¢ Varther Hints for restoring 
Animation, and for preserving Health against 
the pernicious Influence ef noxious vapours, 
or contaminated. Air, by -simple effica~ 
cious Means,” in a letter to him by Dry 
Fothergill. The mind’ of Dr. Hawes was 
uniformly and ardently employed in the gene~ 
ral cause of hymanity. His views of benefix 
cence were by no means confined to the ob- 
soon 
* In the Transactions of the Society from 
1774 to 1784, published in 4796, by Dr, 
Hawes. pe tne” I “ 
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