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ftate of afphyxia, as it requires a barbarous 
operation, the confequences of which 
would be always terrible and dillrefling. 
Artificial ele&ricity, however, may be 
very applicable under thefe circumftances, 
and there is every reafon to believe its 
effedls would correfpond with our expec¬ 
tations. The ingenious Dr. Abildgaard has 
by means of this agent been enabled to 
deprive animals of all fenfation arid mo¬ 
tion, and afterwards to recall them to life. 
His experiments were made upon fowls. 
On palling a violent fhock through their 
heads, they fell down apparently dead, 
but lie re-animated them by gentle fhocks, 
pa-fled through the heart and lungs. 
If animals apparently drowned are fome- 
times reftored to life by exciting their own 
eled:ricity, they are not capable of being 
fo refufcitated when they happen to perifh 
by other afphyxiae. 
