Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Dissertation on Suspended Respiration, From Drowning, Hanging, and Suffocation: In Which Is Recommended a Different Mode of Treatment to Any Hitherto Pointed Out
This art'(if fuch it might be called in fo rude a condition) was, in former ages, guided chie?y by blind prejudice; the knowledge of the animal oeconomy, and of life, was not fufiiciently extended, to afford maxims of any value to the prae.
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