An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders: together with remarks on the use and abuse of powerful medicines in the beginning of acute diseases / [William Hawes].

  • Hawes, William, 1736-1808.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders: together with remarks on the use and abuse of powerful medicines in the beginning of acute diseases / [William Hawes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *9 1 A N ADDRESS to the PUBLIC. AS THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS relates to a fubjedl in which every individual is in- terelled, the writer wifhes to render the knowledge of it as general as poflrble, and for that reafon has thought proper to publifh it. The cuftom of laying out the bodies of the perfons fuppofed to be dead, as foon as refpiration ceafes, and the interment of them before the fisns of pu- trefadion appear, has been frequently oppofed by men of learning and humanity in this and other countries. MONS. BRUHIER, in particular, a phyfician of great eminence in Paris, publilhed a piece, about thirty years ago, intitled, “ The Un- certainty of the Signs of Death in which he clearly proved, from the teftimonies of various authors, and the atteftations of unexceptionable witnelTes, that many perfons who have been buri- ed alive, and were providentially difcovered in that Rate, had been refcued from the grave, and enjoyed the pleafures of fociety for feveral years after. But notwithftanding the numerous and well au- thenticated fadis of this kind, the cuftom above- mentioned remains in full force. As foon as the Jemblance of death appears, the chamber of the fick is