Farther hints for restoring animation, and for preserving mankind against the pernicious influence of noxious vapours, or, contaminated air, in a second letter to Dr. Hawes.

  • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Farther hints for restoring animation, and for preserving mankind against the pernicious influence of noxious vapours, or, contaminated air, in a second letter to Dr. Hawes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which it fufpends their influence. Hence the fyrnptoms which it produces are of the ' foporiflc kind, as flupor, fyncope, apo- plexy or immediate death. But what is very remarkable when life is fuddenly ex- tingiiifhed in this way, the body, infliead ■of becoming rigid, - remains generally quite flexible, as when ftruck with lightning, which perhaps hereafter will be found to be only a higher fpecies of phlogiftication. Air-rendered impure by being often re- {pired Acquires the fame deleterious proper- ties, and becomes equally deftrudtive to ani- mal life. Hence the lungs feem evidently in- tended to inhale pure refpirable air, and to difcharge a proportionable quantity of con- taminated air. ' Now if the mere {hutting out the former for a few minutes fufpends the atflion of the lungs, the retention of the latter cannot but haflen its final ex- 3 tindion.