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.

  • Anthony Fothergill
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Not long ago any attempt to recover per- fons apparently dead would have been, ridiculed as vifionary, and abfurd, and the authentic fad:s which this and other humane inftitutions have' of late years pre- fented to the aftonilhed world, would for- merly have been confidered as entirely fu- pernatural. Great and uncommon how- t ever as the fuccefs may appear, yet the- art of reftoring Animation, muft be confeffed to be but yet^in its very infancy. Its prin-. ciples being ftill but little underftood, the method^ propofed by. the different focieties are far from being well eftablifhed, fome of them being of a doubtful nature, others 11. • - i • very inadequate, and all but too often greatly difproportionate to our expedations. The improvements which I ventured to fugged:, depend chiefly on a prudent ma- nagement of dephlogiflicated air, electricity, and heat, three of the moft powerful agents in nature; and I have the pleafure to affure
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