376 Apparatus for restoring the Action of the Lungs. 
bability of its being injurious and destructive ;—we may be in- 
clined to adopt a severe, perhaps, but still a just reproof, 
** They are wedded to their idols, let them alone.” The appli- 
cation of /obacco smoke in the mode recommended, is of a piece 
with the rest. 
1 certainly have reason to complain of the cold reception 
which my invention received from that quarter, —where it should 
have been dispassionately considered and cherished ; and I boldly 
ask, Was it fair that three or four individuals in conclave should 
have pronounced such a hasty and inconsiderate opinion, before 
the merits of the invention were calmly weighed and discussed, 
when twenty times that number of gentlemen eminent in medical 
‘skill and scientific talent had on former occasions, without a 
single dissentient, pronounced it at once “ ingenious” and “ va~ 
luable ?”’—This sentiment of the Royal Humane Society has been 
certainly too inconsiderately promulgated.— These individuals 
were assuredly bound to state the grounds on which their opi- 
nion was formed and founded; viz. that the “ bellows” were pre- 
ferable for general purposes. 
The expense and complemity of the machine were stated as 
difficulties to its ** general” adoption. Now, as to the former, 
the bellows and its appendages complete cost 5/. 5s. My ap- 
paratUs complete in all its parts may be supplied for little more 
than ONE THIRD of this sum. And as for complexity, I have 
said, it is simplicity itself. Whereis the difficulty of operating 
the piston? A child need not be taught it; it is not at all com- 
parable with the bellows, even in this respect, and in its advan- 
tages mfiniiely superior, and armed at all points for every case 
of asphyxia. If the explanatory remarks accompanying the pre- 
sentation of the instrument to the Royal Humane Society were 
imperfeet or insufficient, 1 was ready to re- -explain: and re-ex- 
tend.—1 have no doubt that the valuable Society i in question 
will see the necessity of reconsidering their opinion, which other- 
wise might tend most materially to injure their own glorious 
cause, and prevent useful communications connected with the 
important question of life. 
Be it remembered, mine are not. theoretic speculations, but 
that the instrument was the offspring of rigorous induction, I 
have never succeeded in a solitary instance in restoring the action 
of the lungs in inferior animals, by propelling the air through a 
tube encased with ice. But with air heated to the animal tem- 
perature my success has been such as to enable me, on just and 
proper grounds, most heartily to recommend the plan now pro- 
posed. In four out of five cases it has been successful. 
My experiments inform me, that there is little probability of 
the air being forced down the Csophague instead of raising the 
Epiglottis, 
