A Practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839.
Date:
1803
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    A rustic appeared to die of the plague, and after three days discovered no signs of respiration, but on being carried to the grave recovered, and lived many years afterwards.* Instances of apparent death from drowning are numerous, and consequent recoveries since the establishment of the Humane Society are authen- ticated beyond suspicion or doubt, to the honour of that invaluable institution. Many curious histories are extant of persons roused from the tomb of death by accident or design, and may be seen in Diemerbroeck, Lib. II. Joannes Math^us, Quaest. Med.— Philip. Salmuth. Cent. 2. Obs. 86, 87, 95.— Hildanus, Cent. 2. Obs. 95, 96, and other writers, f It would appear from these circumstances that the animal oeconomy will admit of great latitude preserving the exercise of its functions, though the quantity of air inspired be much smaller than it is possible to ascertain. * Diemerbroeck Tractat. de peste. lib. 4. hist. 85. •J* Add to these facts, the curious relations of the discovery of living toads in the stems of elm and oak trees, by the Academy of Sciences of Paris, 1719, 1731.