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was fought betwixt the Saxons and the Danes i in 
which fo much Blood was fpilt, that a little River is 
faid to have run Blood, now called from thence 
‘Danes Stream . 
Tour Friend , and 
Oxtmten-Streef, Jan. 12. 
1744* Humble Servant , 
Tho. Wright. 
XL Obfervations on a Cafe publijhed in the lafl 
V olume of the Medical EfTays, &fc. of Reco- 
vering a Man Dead in Appearance , by dif 
tending the Lungs with Air . Printed at 
Edinburgh, 1744; by John Fothergill, 
Licent . Coll. Med. Lond. 
'ReadYe.b. 21. 
1744-5. Now 
T HERE are fome Fads, which, in 
thcmfdves, arc of fo great Im- 
portance to Mankind, or which 
may lead to fuch ufeful Difcoveries, that it would 
feem to be the Duty of every one, under whofe No- 
tice they fall, to render them as extenfively public as 
it is polTible. 
The Cafe which gives Rife to the following Re- 
marks, I apprehend, is of this Nature : It is an Ac- 
count of “ A Man y dead in Appearance , recovered by 
et dijf ending the Lungs with Air j by Mr. William 
u Toifack, Surgeon in Alloa 5” printed in Part 2. p.605 . 
Vol. V. of the Medical EJfays y publifhed by a Society 
of Gentlemen at Edinburgh j an Abdrad of which 
will 
