An address to the King and Parliament of Great-Britain, on the important subject of preserving the lives of its inhabitants, by means which, with the sanction and assistance of the legislature, would be rendered simple, clear, and efficacious to the people at large : with an appendix, in which is inserted a letter from Dr. Lettsom, to the author / by W. Hawes, M.D. ... To which are subjoined, Hints for improving the art of restoring suspended animation, and also for administering dephlogisticated air in certain diseases, and particularly in the present epidemic-termed influenza, proposed (in a letter to Dr. Hawes) by A. Fothergill, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, and F.R.S.

  • Hawes, William, 1736-1808.
Date:
1782
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Credit: An address to the King and Parliament of Great-Britain, on the important subject of preserving the lives of its inhabitants, by means which, with the sanction and assistance of the legislature, would be rendered simple, clear, and efficacious to the people at large : with an appendix, in which is inserted a letter from Dr. Lettsom, to the author / by W. Hawes, M.D. ... To which are subjoined, Hints for improving the art of restoring suspended animation, and also for administering dephlogisticated air in certain diseases, and particularly in the present epidemic-termed influenza, proposed (in a letter to Dr. Hawes) by A. Fothergill, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, and F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    < t2 ) ceafed, and perhaps never totally forfakes them while they retain the fmalleft degree of heat. Hence the vital principle, like that of electricity (to which it feems to bear ftrong affinity) often remains in a dormant ftate, without betraying any figns of its prefence, till it happens to be roufed by the proper modes of excitation. Hence neither the clay-cold hand, the ftiffnefs of the limbs, the dilatation of the pupil, nor even the cadaverous countenance are, feparately confidered, infallible tefts of its total extinction. Nay, putrefaction itfelf is but an equivocal fign of abfolute death, in the $m ftage of the confluent fmall-pox, putrid fevers, or fea fcurvy, when a fyncope fupervenes. One mark of the extinction of life, which generally pre- fents itfelf, and which cannot fail to attract the notice of every accurate obfervcr, is a peculiar