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The procefs recommended under the firft head of treat- 
ment fhould ilill be continued; while that recommended 
under the fecond is put in pradice, as the lafl is only an 
auxiliary to the firft. The firft,. in many cafes, may fuc-J 
ceed alone ; but the fecond without the firft mull, I think,; 
always fail in cafes where the powers of life are confi- 
derably weakened. Motion poffibly may be of fervice',' 
it may at lean. be tried;, but, as it has lefs effed than any 
other of the ufually prelcribed Jl.imuli , it fhould be the 
laid part or the procefsr/b I would recommend the fame 
care to the operator in regulating, the proportion of every 
one of thele means as I did before in the application of 
heat ; poffibly every one of them may have the fame pro- 
perty of deftroying intirely the feeble adion which they 
have excited, if adminiiiered in too great a quantity; 
inftead, therefore, of increafing and haltening the ope- 
rations on the firft figns of returning life being obferved, 
as ufually done, I fhould wiffi them to be leffened, that 
their increafe afterwards may be graduated, as nearly as 
poffible, by the quantity of powers as they arife. If 
the heart begins to move, I would leffen my application 
of air to the lungs, and with great, attention obferve 
when the mufcles of refpiration began to ad, that, when 
they do, I might leave a great deal to them. I would by 
(f) How far eleftricity may be of fervice, I know not; but. itjnay, however, 
be tried, when every other method lias failed. I have not mentioned inje&ina-. 
ftimulating fubftanccs ' direftly into the veins, though it might be fuppofed a 
proper expedient; becaufe, in looking over my experiments. on that fubje.a, I 
found none where animal life received increafe. 
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