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experiment too far, and that he was ab¬ 
solutely deprived of life. They were 
upon the point of leaving him, when they 
obferved fome motion in his body, and 
upon examination found his pulfe and the 
motion of his heart gradually returning, 
he began to breathe gently and fpeak foftly. 
After this lingular Scene, the phyficians 
talked with him, and then left him. Fie 
died in the evening of the fame day, 
calmly and compofedly. (Cheyne— 
Englifh Malady.) 
Baron Haller, who relates the hiftory of 
Colonel Townfhend, in his Phyliology, 
confiders it as too much ornamented, and 
thinks that his difeafe was a Ample faint¬ 
ing fit. But it is not wonderful that Hal¬ 
ler Should put this conftrudtion upon the 
affair, becaufe he would not on any ac¬ 
count acknowledge the power of the mind 
over Spontaneous or unwilling motions. 
We never make juft conclufions if we are 
pre-occupied with favorite opinions. 
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