Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks.

Franks, John, M.D.

Date:: M.DCC.XC. [1790]

Credit: Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$/ [ 21 ] half, he complained of a difficulty in breathing, and an oppreffion at his heart, for which an emetic was given him, that operated downwards indead of upwards. The next day he had a ffiarp pain at his bread, which was fcarce bearable when he breathed: a fecond bleeding and fome medicines removed that pain to his right fide, where it fettled, yet leffened by de- grees, as he recovered. \ CASE X. AT Amjierda?n, on the 30th of Novem- ber, 1768, one Lambert Ploos, an old man, fell from a boat he was pufhing forward under a bridge, and finking to the bottom of the canal, was not readily found, becaufeit was dark: being got out at lad, he was put into a barge, and rolled on a cafk, though he was cold and diff— fome brandy was poured into his mouth, andhe was carried to a public-houfe, where he was laid before a large fire, dripped, and$