(179) 
O^cium iJHuJ iRefpirationis pr£cipuum\ Ifos in to ntaxi- 
me pojitum arbttramur^ quod Sanguinis Motui inferviat^ 
eumj^tueatur, pag. 6. Edit. Lond. 1670. 
And, to make out his Aflertion, he urges (among 
other Arguments of Icfs note) That this Opinion, eafi- 
ly explains, the Manner of Sudden Death, by StrangHng ; 
by drownings and by violent Catarrhs* fuppofing 
Death, and the Stagnation of the Blood in the Lungs, 
Right Ventricle of the Heart, fSc. to arife, in all thefe 
Cafes, from the Stoppage of the Breath. 
EtmuQer tmhxdiCts the fame Opinion ; and, in De- 
fence of it, alledges the ftme Argument : Indeed they 
both depend on it, as highly probable and convincing. 
Tho', I think, the Opinion is very Rational ; 1 can- 
not (ay it appears fuch, from the Argument now pro- 
duced; which, upon Examination^ will be found too li- 
able and obnoxious to bear fo great a Proportion of the 
Proof. 
By Dr. Thruftons own Conccffion, {pag, 173.) Men 
that are Hang'd, may, with good Reafon, befuppofed to 
die, partly, from the mutual Commerce between the 
Head and Heart, being now intercepted. The remarka- 
ble Lividnefs of their Faces, with the extraordinary Di- 
ftcntion of the Jugulars, in their feveral Branches above 
the Ligature, argue, they die, inagreat Meafure, Apo* 
pleilicaL _ 
Now, whatever fharethe Interruption of this mutu- 
al Commerce has, in killing the Man ; fo much the lefs 
Reafon have wc to impute his Death, and the Stagnati- 
on of Blood in his Lungs, &c. to the Stoppage of his 
Breath. 
Nor is the Second Caft (that of Sudden Death by 
Drowning) without Exception : For here, the Water 
rufliing, after an unufiial Manner, into the Lungs, may 
Dd X be 
