1798.) 
becaufe I have been fo fortunate myfelf 
as to reftore life, in a cafe, where my 
firft attention was direéted towards rout{- 
ing the powers of the ftomach by eaciting 
vomiting: but for the moft obvious rea- 
fons, which I fhall prefently explain. 
The Royal Humane Society did me the. 
honour of prelenting me with a medal, at 
their laft annual court of directors, for a 
fuccefsful and extraordinary cafe, In 
the direétions publifhed by the Society 
for the recovery of drowned perfons, we 
are ftrictly forbidden the practice of giv- 
ing vomits,, becaufe it is known that 
emetics fuddenly weaken the powers of 
life, as is maniteft from the ficknefs, fee- 
blenefs of pulfe, and general debility 
which conftantly accompany their opera- 
tion. Thefe effets the learned Doctor 
Fothergill obierves in his * New Inquiry 
into the Sufpenfion ef Vital-adction,” proba- 
bly overbalance any advantage that other- 
wife might accrue trom the gencral con- 
cuffion. Emetics therefore he adds, ** but 
ill fuit with the intention of reftoring 
animation.”’ JI thall juft relate the cafe 
before alluded to, and make fuch ob- 
fervations as the nature of that cafe fug- 
gelts, 
~ Ann Blake aged 13 years, attempted 
to deftroy herfelf by drowning in a tub 
of water. She had remained in the water 
above a quarter of an hour, and juft as 
fhe was taken out, I came to her aflift- 
ance. ‘She was to all appearance dead ; 
there was no pulfation either in the tem- 
poral artery or at the wrift; her body 
was cold and motionlefs, and her face 
livid. After having the body well rub- 
bed, and volatiles applied to the writts, 
temples, breaft, &c. it occurred to me, 
knowing from experiments that the fto- 
mach retained the vital principle long 
after it has ceafed in all other parts of 
the fyftem, that the intentions fhould be 
direéted towards calling it into action: 
accordingly I gave her by fpoonfulls a 
folution of the oxyd of zinc in water, 
which with difficulty I got down the 
throat, owing to a {trong contraction of 
the epiglottis. In about ten minutes 
the body became conyulfed, a large quan- 
tity of water was ejeéted from the fto- 
mach ; the muicles of the jaw which 
before were rigid, now became relaxed, 
and the heart pulfated; the lungs were 
inflated, and when fhe could {fwallow, a 
cordial volatile draught was given her. 
By the next morning the was quite reco- 
yered. 
If we confider the general fhock which 
$metics give to the fyitem, and the great 
~ Ufe of Vomits in jufpended Animation. | 241 
provability there is of immediately ftimu- 
lating the heart by the difengagement of 
oxygen-gas in the ftomach, I think we 
are iully warranted in having recourfe to 
fuch powerful aids. Iwill grant in cafes 
of congeftions in the blood-veflels of the 
brain, by the imprudent adminiftration 
of yomits, there are fome initances record- 
ed, where their ufe in cafés of fufpended 
animation has been attended with fatal 
confequences. Iam at prefent engaged 
in purfuing a feries of experiments, which 
when, completed, will throw more light 
on the fubje&t: and it will be the pride 
of my lite to employ my Jeifure hours to 
thofe enquiries, which can lend to any 
difcoveries that can ultimately tend to 
abbreviate the catalogue of human ma- 
ladies. Iam, your obliged, &c. 
Ely: Place, Holbori,. 0°) 
Of, 18, 1798. CHARLES BROWN. 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
PREsENT STATE OF THE MANUFAC- 
TURES OF FRANCE. 
HE manufactures of France re- 
femble the ruins of a magnificent 
building, whofe foundations have failed, 
and which has fallen in upon itfelf. ia 
the interior parts of the country, and in 
the cities which were formerly the moft 
flourifhing, are feen the effects of the re-_ 
volutional fhocks, and the confequences 
of the moft ob{tinate and deeply-felt war 
that ever defolated France. Except fome 
few articles produced at Lyons, manu- 
factures are every where reduced to the 
loweft ftate, without a hope of rifing 
again. There is a univerfal dearth of 
workmen and materials. No permanent 
rattention can be beftowed on commerce 
and the mechanic arts until the return 
of peace; and there is nothing but a. 
well-eftablifhed internal tranquillity which 
ean gradually bring them back to their 
former ftate. All the enterprifes in which 
aéti¥e and induftrious individuals engage, 
even at Paris, undér the eye and the pro-> 
tection of government, and with all the 
encouragement held: out by the public 
{pirit of the national inftitutions, are in 
reality nothing more than effays, which 
excite hopes, indeed, for futurity, but 
which languifh at prefent under a multi- 
tude of dithculties. 
‘ OLIVIER has a manufattory of porce- - 
lain in the Fauxbourg St. Antoine: it was 
firft eftablifhed by his father, has already 
continued fixty years, but has been con- 
fiderably -enlarged and improved by the 
prefent proprietor, Every f{pecies of 
pottery 


