A dissertation on natural and suspended respiration / By Edward Coleman.

  • Edward Coleman
Date:
1802
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Credit: A dissertation on natural and suspended respiration / By Edward Coleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    titioner; and the caufes of death were too incorreétly marked, to. fhew, with any de- gree of precifion, the means of recovery. Accidental recoveries had, indeed, fhewn that it was practicable; but Phyfiological {cience was unable to explain or. preferibe the. mode. It was referved for the eighteenth century, to exhibit, on a large {cale, any practical {pecimens of this mode of benevolence, and to approach, in fome refpect, to the {cientific folution of thofe principles by which it muft be guided, Many focieties were formed on the conti- nent of Europe, for the purpofe of pro- moting this kind of knowledge; and their | reports afforded the moft mortifying reply to thofe who had declaimed with fuch triumph on the yanity of natural fcience, and the impotence of humanart. Their multiplied fucceffes, in fo untried a path, awakened a general
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