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quently varied with advantage during the use of 

 means ; but if there are evident marks of injury 

 that position which seems the best fhould be steadily 

 preserved. 



V. Lose no time by taking blood ; for this is per- 

 haps never necefsa^ry but in very full habits. When 

 recovery has been accomplifhed, there have been a 

 few examples wherein blooding has seemed beneficial, 

 by removing a disorder in the breast, by obviating 

 symptoms of pleurisy. 



VI. Use no strong stimulants when the powers of 

 life are weak. Emetics thrown into the stomach 

 by means of a crooked pipe, and glysters of the fumes 

 or of the infusion of tobacco, which nauseate, are of 

 very doubtful use. Electricity, howsoever safe, or 

 .perhaps proper in the hands of medical men, can sel- 

 dom be found by common afsistants, is difficultly ma- 

 naged, and of precarious operation. 



VII. Do not relinquiih the attempts to recover for 

 a long time, since after six or more hours some have 

 been revived- It would be better in every instance 

 to persevere till signs of putridity were discovered, 

 than to desist where there appeared the most remote 

 pofsibility of succefs. 



VIII. Tliough it be a case of suicide, refuse not 

 your best afsistauce to the unhappy sufferer, and a- 

 void all disagreeable reflections, especially diiring the 

 weak state of I'uipient recovery. 



IX. Never be unduly hurried, lest the businefs of 

 recovering be done imperfectly ; but, through the 

 'vhole, be stcatly and composed. 



