ately he felt six or seven quick beats of the heart , 

 the lungs began to play, and soon after the pulse 

 was felt in the arteries. He then opened a vein, 

 which at first bled drop by drop, but in a while bled 

 freely. Mean time he caused him to be pulled and 

 rubbed. In an hour he began to come to himself, in 

 four hqurs walked home; and in four days returned 

 to his work. 



Wherever the solids are whole, and their tone un- 

 impaired, where the juices are not corrupted, where 

 there is the least remains of animal heat, it would be 

 wrong not to try this experiment. This takes in a 

 few diseases, and many accidents. Among the first 

 are many that cause sudden deaths, as apoplexies and 

 fits of various kinds. In many of these it might be 

 of use to apply this method, and in various casual- 

 ties, such as suffocations from the damps of mines and 

 coal. pits, the condensed air of long unopened wells ; 

 the noxious vapours of fermentrng liquors received 

 from a narrow vent, the steain of burning charcoal, 

 arsenical effluvia, or those of* sulphureous mineral 

 acids. And perhaps those who seem to be struck 

 dead by lightning, or any violent agitation of the pas- 

 sions, as joy, fear, anger, surprise, might frequently 

 be recovered by this simple process* 



The animal machine is like a clock : the wheels 

 whereof may be in ever so good order, the mechanism 

 compleat in every part, and wound up to <he full 

 pitch, yet without some impulse communicated to the 

 pendulum, the whole continues motionless. 



Thus in these accidents, the solids are whole and 

 e^ :ic, and the juices no otherwise vitiated, than by a 

 short stagnation, from the quiescence of that moving 

 something, which enables matter in animated bodies, 

 to overcome the resistance of the medium it acts in. 

 Inflating the lungs, and thus communicating motion 

 to the heart, like giving the first vibration to a pen- 

 dulum ; enables this something to resume the govern* 



