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any other Caufe than a fhort Stagnation; where 
there is the leaf!; Remains of animal Heat, it would 
feem wrong not to attempt fo eafy an Experiment. 
This Defcription takes in a few Difeafes, but a 
greater Number of Accidents. Amongfi: the firft are 
many of thofe which are called fudden Deaths from 
fome invifible Caufe; Apoplexies, Fits of various Kinds, 
as Hyfterics, Syncope s, and many other Diforders, 
wherein, without any obvious Prae-indifpofition, Per- 
fons in a Moment fink down and expire. In many 
of thefe Cafes it might be of Ufe to apply this Me- 
thod ; yet without neglecting any of thofe other 
Helps, which are ufually called in upon thefe melan- 
choly Occaftons. 
It is not eafy to enumerate all the various Cafuai- 
tles, in which this Method might be try’d not with- 
out a ProfpeCt of Succefs ; fome of them are the fol- 
lowing : Suffocations from the fulphureous Damps of 
Mines, Coal pits, &c. the condenfed Air of long- 
unopeifd Wells, or other fubterraneous Caverns ; 
the noxious Vapours arifing from fermenting Liquors 
received from a narrow Vent ; the Steam of burn- 
ing Charcoal ; fulphureous mineral Acids ; arfenical 
Effluvia, &c. 
Perhaps thofe, who, to Appearance, are (truck dead 
by Lightning, or any violent Agitation of the Paf- 
itons, as Joy, Fear, Surprize, <fcrc. might frequently 
be recover’d by this fimple Procefs of Itrongly blow- 
ing into the Lungs, and by that means once more 
communicating Motion to the vital Organs. 
Malefactors executed at the Gallows would afford 
Opportunities of difeovering how far this Method 
might be fuccefsful in relieving fuch as may have 
unhappily 
