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unhappily become their own Executioners, by hang- 
ing themfelves. It might at lead be try’d, if, after 
the Criminals have hung the ufual Time, inflating the 
Lungs, in the Manner-propofed, would nor, fome- 
times, bring them to Life. The only ill Confequcnee 
that could accrue from aDifcoveryof this kind would 
be eaftly obviated by prolonging the prefcnt allotted 
Time of Sufpenfion. 
But this Method would feem to promife very much 
in aflifting thofe who have been fuffocated iir the 
Water, under the above mentioned Circumftances ; 
at leaft it appears necefiary to recommend a Trial of 
it, after the Body has been difeharged of the Water 
admitted into it, by placing it in a proper Pofltion, 
the Head downwards, prone, and, if it can be, acrofs 
a Barrel, Hogfhead, or fome fuch-like convex Support, 
with the utmoft Expedition. 
It does not Teem abfurd, to compare the animal 
Machine to a Clock j let the Wheels whereof be in 
never fo good Order, the Mechanifm complete in 
every Part, and wound up to the full Pitch, yet, 
without fome Impulfe communicated to the ‘Pendu- 
lum , the Whole continues motionlefs. 
Thus, in the Accidents deferibed, the Solids are 
fuppofed to be whole and elaftic, the Juices in fuf- 
fkient Quantities, their Qualities no otherwife vi- 
tiated than by a fhort Stagnation, from the Qui- 
efcenceof that moving Something which enables Mat- 
ter in animated Bodies to overcome the Reiiftance 
of the Medium it &dts in. 
Inflating the Lungs, and, by this means, commu- 
nicating Motion to the Heart, like giving the firft 
Vibration to a Pendulum , may poffibly, in many 
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