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tended with conftant vomitings, which 
rendered his life very uncomfortable. The 
moft guarded mode of living, and the ufe 
of many different remedies did not afford 
him the lead: relief, fo that his difeafe was 
confidered as incurable. Early one morn¬ 
ing he called a confultation of his phyfi- 
cians, and told them he wi(lied to com¬ 
municate a lingular circumftance which 
had happened to him, viz. That he found 
he could die or expire whenever he pleafed, 
and by a particular effort come back again 
to life. After having held fome converfa- 
tion on this peculiarity, he propofed 
making a trial in their prefence, and with 
this view compofed himfelf upon his 
back. In a fhort time, he was to all ap¬ 
pearance dead. The breathing, the pul- 
fat ion of the heart and arteries were alto¬ 
gether fufpended, but remaining in this 
fituation for fome time, the phyficians 
began to conclude that he had carried his 
expert- 
