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Inftance I remember to have met with, wherein the 
Experiment was applied to the happy Purpofe of re* 
feuing Life from fuch imminent Danger. 
Bleeding has hitherto been almoft the only Refuge 
upon thefe Occafions : If this did not fucceed, the 
Patient was given up. By Bleeding, it was propofed 
to give Vent to the ftagnating Blood in the Vein, in 
order to make Way for that in the Arteries a terga 7 
that the Refinance of the Heart being thus diminifhed, 
this Mufcle might again be put in Motion. 
But, in too many Inftances, we every Day are in- 
formed, that this Operation will not fucceed, tho’ the 
Aperture is made with never fo much Skill : Nor is 
it likely, that it fhould, when the Blood has loft con- 
Ederably of its Fluidity, the Motion of the Heart, and 
the contradile Force of the Solids, are at an End. 
Chafing, Rubbing, Pulling, the Application of 
Stimulants, are too often as ineffedual as Bleeding. 
The Method of diftending the Lungs of Perfons, 
dead in Appearance, having been try’d with fuch Suc- 
cefs in one Inftance, gives juft Reafon to exped, that 
it may be ufeful to others. 
It may be a proper Inquiry, In what Cafes, and 
under what Circumftances, there may be a Prolped 
of applying it with Succefs ? 
It will at once be granted. That when the Juices 
are corrupted, where they are rendered unfit for Cir- 
culation by Difeafcs, where they are exhaufted, or 
where the Tone and Texture of the Solids is injured 
or deftroyed, it would be extreme Folly to think of 
any Expedient to recover Life. 
But where the Solids are whole, and their Tone 
unimpair’d by Difeafes, the Juices not vitiated by 
any 
