conftitution that their blood being colder tfian that of others, and 
therearifing but a fiender effervefcenceof the blood in the heart, 
there is DO'quick<:irculation, noraaecefilty of expiring any great 
plenty of lharp and offenfive fumes 3 which kind of bloud the Au- 
thor coinparesto that offices 5 or rather to that of Amphibious 
animals, as Frogs, Otters 5 Tortoifes , Crocodils , c^t.'^ beirg 
of that nature, that the Airbeingonce takenin , and included ai 
the Lungs and the Bladders thereof, the niocion of the circiiJaiiiig 
blood may be entertain d and continued for a confiderable imt. 
On this occafion he relates that extraordinary Example of a 
Swedifli gardiner , lately alive, who fonie years ago endeavou- 
ring to help another that was fallen into the water under the Ice 
fell into it him felf to the depth of eighteen Swedifii Ellsj where 
afterwards hewasfoundftanding upright with his feet on thegroundy 
and whence they drew him up after he had remained there for the 
fpaceoffixteenhours,wrappinghim aboutvclofe with linnen and 
woollen cloaths to keep theAir from too fudden a rufhing upoohim, 
andthen laying him infome warm p!ace,and rubbing and rolling him, 
and at length giving him fome very fpirituous liquor to drink^by all 
which he was at length reftored to life , and brought to the Queen 
Mother of Sweden^ who gavehiraayearly penfion, and fhew'd 
hiai as prodigy to divers perfons of quality: The fame thing 
being alfo confirmed by theJamous Dr-L^^^^/^?^ ^ who himfelf re. 
ceived the relation in Sw^i^/^fo well attefted that nothing,, faith 
cur Juthor^ can be required more to affert an Hiftorical trurh. To 
which narrative are here fubjoyned (bme others , fb much more 
prodigiou?^ Ithat wet want i:onfiderice to infert them here. 
To folve thefe ftrange phaenomenaj 'Dt.Fechlimus pretends , that 
there remained in thefe perfons/ome, though very languid and ob=" 
fcure, motion of the Blood and Spirits, and that that motion was 
reduced ad ifjteriora^znd there confined toa fmall cGmpafs, withonc 
circulation, as alfo that all the remainder of the Tafid motion is to be 
adfcribed to the Nitro-aerial effluviums (which abound in thofe 
paters of Suveden) having a congruity to the pores of the bodies, 
through which they are tranfmitted. And that it may not be 
thought impoffiblc that the blood fliould get into the Lungs defti- 
tutc of motion, our Author alledgg^ihq lifejpf inators , - in wvbom 
