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all means forbid bleeding, which, I think, weakens the 
animal principle, and lelfens life itfelf, confequently 
leffens both the powers and difpofitions to acftion. I 
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would avoid introducing any thing into the ftomach, 
which ordinarily produces naufea or vomiting, as that 
alfo will have a fimilar effect. ; 1 would avoid like wife. 
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throwing any thing in by the antes } which might tend to 
an evacuation that way, as every fuch evacuation alio 
tends to leffen the animal powers ; of courfe, I have 
avoided fpeaking of the fumes of tobacco, which always 
produce ficknefs or purging, according as they are ap- 
plied. 
Whoever is appointed by the fociety for the purpofes 
of recovering drowned people, Ihould have an affiftant, 
well acquainted with the methods intended to be made 
life off; that, while the one is going on with the firft and 
raoft iimple methods, the other may be preparing other 
means, fo that no time may be loft between the opera- 
tions; and the more fo, as the nm will* in all cafes, aftift 
the fecond, and both together may often be attended with 
fuccefs, though each feparately might have failed. 
A proper apparatus alfo is as elfentially neceffary to 
the inftitution, a defeription of which 1 here annex. 
Firft, a pair of bellows, fo contrived w r ith two feparate 
cavities, that by opening them, when applied to the 
noftrils or mouth of a patient, one cavity will be filled 
with the common air, and the other with air fucked out 
from the lungs, and by fhutting them again, the com- 
mon air will be thrown into the lungs, and that lucked 
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