840 REMEDIES FOR RESTORING ANIMATION. 



nicious remedies. The managers of the Royal 

 Humane Society have long since thrown aside the 

 Galvanic battery as a mere toy, and like sensi- 

 ble men, follow the indications of nature, by re- 

 sorting to the warm bath, beds heated with hot 

 water, inflation of the lungs with fresh air, and 

 the application of bottles filled with hot water to 

 the thorax, with a view of arousing the sus- 

 pended action of the heart. Until the circulation 

 is restored, what can be the use of the lancet, or 

 even brandy, ammonia, and other stimulants ? 

 In short, we must rely chiefly on the great con- 

 servative principle of nature in the treatment of 

 all maladies. And they who neglect her pre- 

 cepts, deserve not the name of Physicians. 



There are many facts recorded in the scattered 

 annals of natural history and physiology, tending 

 to show, that even birds may be reduced to a state 

 of suspended animation by cold, and afterwards 

 restored by the gradual application of warmth. 

 For it was found by Spallanzani, that on sur- 

 rounding martins with ice, they lost all sensibility 

 and power of motion, but revived when placed 

 before the fire. And many other highly respect- 

 able authors assert, that swallows have been found 

 during winter in the hollows of trees, in a state of 

 complete lethargy, from which they were reco- 

 vered in the same way. Although the smaller 

 birds have great powers of obtaining caloric from 

 the atmosphere by respiration when in a healthy 



