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inflated? But to infiatethe Jorgs (especially of drown.'
ed persons,) completely, requires no inconsiderable
(hare of skill and dexterity. For the firong couftriai
on which seizes the aperture of the windpipe, in the
3& of drowning (and w-ich 1 conceive to be the imme
diate cause of the fufpenfioo of respiration) disposes the
air blown into the mouth or nostrils, to pals into the
gullet indead of the ungs. To overcome this difficul
ty, the epiglottis most be elevated, and a bent fy phon
introduced into the windpipe, as recommended by that
expert anatomist, profeffor Monro. Into the orifice
of the fyphon the nozzel of a small pair of bellows
ought to be accurately inferred. A large bladder con
taining dephlogifticated air, secured by a flop-cock,
and communicating with the valve of the bellows, com
pletes the aparatus. In conducing the operation, the
air is to be thrown into the lungs, and, by the alter
nate pressure of an assistant, is to be made to pass and
repafs, so as to imitate natural refpiration*. Previ
ous to the operation, the air may be warmed by im
mersing the bladder in water, of the temperature of
animal heat. This process being accomplished with
due care and expedition, a quantity of this warm in
vigorating air might next be injeA-d into the intestines,
perhaps with more propriety than the narcotic fumes
of tobacco, so flrongly recommended by some very emi
nent writers, and which seem to be too implicitly relied
on by mod praflioners. The sickness and universal lan
gour which these fumes ufoally produce on other oc
casions, when they penetrate beyond the valve of the
colon, but ill suits with the idea of refloring animation.
So that it may be justly doubted, whether these effefts
of this noted remedy do not more than counterbalance
its flimuating power May not the fame objrDion
be urged against the operation of emetics in these cases ?
Should the present proposal of adminiflering de
phligiflicated air, grounded on its acknowledged su
periority in supporting flame, and its salutary influence
on respiring animals, be efleemed not unworthy your
attention and that of the Humane society, iris hop^d the
novelty of the idea will prove no just obflacle to its un
dergoing a fair and candid trial.
To afeertain the comparative merit of the new modes
of recovery which have been enumerated, and to de
termine the order in which they ought to be ap
plied, muff be left to accurate observation
andexp rience. Where the heat of the body is not
much impaired, they may be tried in the order in
which they have been mentioned ; but where that is
nearly abolished, artificial heat ought probably to pre
cede them, and every other means. If the sole appli
cation of dephlogifticated air, electricity, or heat, these
three powerful agents in nature, should, on fair trial,
evince their superior energy in exciting the secret springs
of life, might they not fu percede various inferior means,
and render the art at once more simple, and more effi
cacious? For it ought ever to be had in remembrance,
that during the trial of inactive or inadequate means,
the object every moment approaches nearer and near
er to that irrecoverable state, which mus tfor ever baf
fle all the efforts of nature and of art! In the interim,
it is by no means proposed to dispense with any of the
ordinary means that have really proved fuccefsful, as
they may flil!, on some emergencies, continbe to be
ufeful auxiliaries. As the suspension of life may be
produced by a variety of causes, so the mode of treat
ment ought to be varied according to the nature of
the case.
Thus, in dronwing, the application of heat is gene
rally beneficial, while persons fuffocated by the fumes
of charcoal require to be exposed to cold air, and cold
water, and are liable to relapse if brought into a warm
room. It is found require to rub the frozen with
[now, as the sudden application of heat proves de
flru&ive. Dephlogifticated air seems to be peculiarly
adapted to the recovery of those who are overcome by
mephitic vapours, as electricity does te those who are
flruck by lightning.
Blending has been found hurtful in most of the pre
ceding cases, while it appears to be ufeful, and even
indispensably necessary in othersf.
Many other stimulating means proposed by prafti
tioners, as emetics, fternotatories, and warm cordials,
may still have their use where the above plan cannot
be properly conducted, for want of judicious medical
assistance. Concerning these particulars, however a
variety of remarks might be here fuggefled; but to
enter into a full difeuffion of them, together with the
necessary cautions peculiar to each, and to point out
to what extent the present plan might be applied,,
would far exceed my present bounds; nor could they
indeed be afeertained but by attentive observation,
and minute enquiry into the laws of the animated ma
chine. There is, however, yet one species of suspend
ed animation, to which I could earnefliy wish to draw
your particular attention, I mean that death-like syn
cope whieh proceeds from great effufions of blood—a
situation which evidently requires peculiar difeernment
and delicacy in the treatment. Our gallant soldiers
and seamen, who at this awful period are thus lavish of
their lives in defence of their country, claim our most
compassionate regards. Certain wounds of the larger
blo^d-veffels must inevitably prove mortal, but there
is reason to suppose that the men sometimes fink under
sudden lots of blood in consequence of being too hasti
ly abandoned, or improperly treated.
The hurry and confufi®n which accompany the tu
multuous scenes of war, and especially during engage
ments, but ill suit with the watchful care and manage
ment necessary for their restoration; and it is to be
feared, that on such melancholy occasions, where the
semblance of death is so very liable to be taken for the
t Concerning this operation, authors seem to be
much divided, an: of late many have declared against
it. Yet, in cases of intoxication, contusions of the
head, apoplexy or firangulation, where the red bloat
ed countenance, fuffufion of the eyes, and other symp
toms, indicate the veflels of the brain to be surcharged,
the necessity of bleeding in the temporal artery, or ju
gular vein, will, it is presumed be generally acknow
ledged.
* Several more bladders of air, secured by flop-cocks,
ought to be had in readiness.
reality, the dead, and even those who are only appa
rently so, too often undergo one common fate! and
by this means the feeble spark of life, which might
have been revived, is for ever extinguished ! The com
mon mode of recalling them from these faintings, by
pouring down fpiritous liquors and heating cordials,
serves but to renew the fatal discharge: and to hasten
their death. The app ication of heat, of electricity,
and most other Simulants, would probably produce
tne fame deflruflive tendency. Might not dephlogif
ticated air, artificially cooled, supply the innocent, yet
animating cordial here wanted ?
To conclude: should the present hints prove ac
ceptable to you, and your ingenious colleagues of the
Humane Society, they are entirely at your disposal,
hoping that, through your joint endeavours, they may
in time be improved, and that every step we advance
farther in this new, and almost unbeaten path of sci
ence, will enable us with more certainty to preserve
life, and to lessen the sum of human misery ; which is
the ardent wish of, A. FOTHERGI L L.
To the PRINTER.
Permit me to request some of your Readers tofavour me
with a Solution of the following Enigma.
Gelasinus.
An ENIGMA.
A FRIEND and an enemy; a blessing and a curse;
a beauty and deformity ; it saves life and takes it
away. Is long and short ; round and square; strait
and crooked Smooth and uneven ; hard and foft ; hot
and cold; most wanted where itis in the greatest plenty,
and w ere most ufeful lead regarded. It accommodates
it(elf to all taffies ; is favoury and insipid ; sweet and
of bad smell; firong and weak ; sometimes able to car
ry the greatest burthen, and at other times will net
bear the weight of a pin For this men make long jour
neys though they have it at home; so capricious it is,
that at tunes it will drive away all company, and be
full of reflexions; and at other times have a large as
sembly, and do its utmost to contribute to their mirth
and entertainment. It has the art to diffbive matri
mony ; pieales and displeases, insomuch that its pre
sence and absence are both implored; cooks and house
wives admire it ; husbandmen curse it ; merchan ts use
it ; it causes famine and plenty; is a bane and an an
tidote; man and beast, fill and fowl, earth and air,
experience its influence. It has the privilege of kissing
the faireft lady's lips, assists them in dressing, and is
often the ornament of their persons; a sovereign reme
dy for despairing lovers, and will bring them together
though one hundred miles distance ; lubfervient, over
bearing, ufeful and deftruXive; death and a medicine;
it is a fluid and a solid; a mountain and a valley ; it
has a numerous offspring, and yet an enemy to chil
dren; it is a fubjed of miracles, and a plague to the
philosophers ; a theme for poets ; an improvement for
music ; of great use in the art of fortification, and has
occasioned the fineft architecture in the world.
A humorous Scheme for preventing unhappy Mar
riages.
IF a law was passed to prevent clandefiine marriages,
and (among many others) the following penalties to
be infl&d on delinquents, it might be productive of
many good confluences; as for example, when two
young thoughtless foots, having no visible way to main
tain themselves, nor any thing to begin the world with,
yet resolve to marry and be miserable, let it be deemed
petty larceny. Isa younger brother marries an old
woman, purely for the fake of maintenance, let it be
called fe defendendo. When a rich old fellow marries a
young girl in her full bloom, I would have it made
felony without benefit of clergy. When two old crea
tures, that can hardly hear one another f -t, but
hank and cough nignt and day, and can propose not
the least comfort to themselves in the thing, yet will
marry together to be more miserable, let them be
deemed non compos, and lent to a mad house. When
a man has had one devil of a wife and buried her, and
yet will marry a second, let him be brought in felo de
le, and buried in the highway accordingly. When a
woman in got d circbmftancts marries a town rake hot
worth a groat ; if the is betrayed into it, let it be call
ed accidental death: but if the knew it, make it felony
and singe her in the fift When a man with no children
marries a woman with five or fix, and vice versa, let the
delinquent fland thrice in the pillory, lose both his
ears, and fuffer one year's imprisonment. If a man
marries a woman olill fame, knowing her to be so, let
him be condemned to have a pair of horns painted on
his door, in perpetuam rei memOriam ; or ifthe be a
known scold, then a couple of neats tongues painted
there. And when a man or woman marries to the dis
inheriting of their children let them fuff- ras in cases of
high trea on. When a woman marries a man deeply
in debt, knowing him to be so, let her be lent to the
houle of correction, and kept to hard labour for three
months : and if he deceived her, and did not let her
know his circumstances, let her be acquitted, and he be
doomed to beat hemp all the days of his life.
These and such like penalties, might prevent many
unhappy marriages, and the ruin of families. If an att
of this nature was now in for e, it would be of infinite
advantage to the community at large, and would be
pleasing to every Friend to good Order.
Virginia, Dumfries, March 31, 1783.
MESSRS. FORET & MYERS, late or Phi
ladelphia, or their creditors, w 11 please to take
NOTICE, that in order to afeertain my demand against
said Foret and Myers, there will be SOLD at PUB
LIC VENDUE, Ft the Store of Mr. John Pens, in this
place, on MONDAY the sth of May next, being
court day, the following GOODS, in which they are
concerned, viz.
Gauze, gauze Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Muslins,
Lawns, Silks, Ribbons, Bengalis, Ginghams, ladies
silk Cloaks, black and white Lace, Barragon, Royal
Rib, Jeans, Pins, &c. to the amount of about (even
hundred pounds Pcnnfylvania money
RICHARD GRAHAM^
RY virtue of a writ of levari facias, to me
di-eaed, will be exposed to Public Sale, on
THURSDAY the 17th of this instant, April, on the
premises, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, that noted
TAVERN, known by the sigh of the BUCK, situate
on the Five Mile Round, containing two acres and §
perches of land, with an elegant brick house, two sto
ries high, four rooms on each floor, neatly finifhed with
sundry out-houses, sheds, &c. an excellent garden and
orchard; the whole in good order; late the property
of John Levins; feizad and taken in execution, by
WM WILL, Sheriff.
On Saturday the 12th instant.
At 12 o'clock at Noon,
Will be fold at the Coffee-Houfe,
7%e Time of a Negro Boy,
Now 12 years old, till he is free according to Law.
Taken in execution by,
WILLIAM WILL, fheriff.
Philadelphia, April 5 1783.
A Contract is Wanted,
rO R the supply of FORAGE for fifty Horses, to be
1 delivered at the Public Stables in Burlington, New-
Jersey. Any person disposed to Contra&, will fend in
their proposals to the office of the lubferiber, on before
the 20th instant.
SAMUEL HODGDON, Assistant Quarter-master.
Q^arter-maffei's Office, Philadelphia, April 5.
Lamb and Checkley,
In Second-street, one door above the north
east corner of Market-street,
HAVE FOR SAL E,
BEST English steel-plated Mill-saws,
Crosscut ditto,
Tenen ditto,
Common Hand ditto,
Mill, crosscut, hand-saw and policing Files,
Horse and other Rasps,
Knives and Forks,
Penknives and Cutteaus,
Padlocks,
Round and square Roman Waiters, of dif
ferent sizes,
Japanned Candlesticks,
Brass Nails,
English White Lead, ground in oil,
Chalk by the cafk,j
Gun-Powder,
Seine Twine,
Barcelona Handkerchiefs.
I ogether with a Variety of other Arti
cles ; which they will dilpofe of on the
most reasonable terms. April 8.
To be Sold by Public Vendue,
In the Borough of Chetter, on he xzd of April, instant,
THAT valuable PLANTATION, late belonging
to the ettate of David Cowpland, deceased, situ
ate on the river Delaware, one mile below the town of
Chester, and sixteen from Philadelphia, supposed to
contain one hundred and forty acres, to be fob by the
acre; there are eighteen acres of good meadow, two
valuable orchards, one of which is mowable, and a
bout 30 acres of valuable woodland; the place abounds
with va ua r le fruit, pears, peaches, and all fo^s of th r
ri<s. The wnole font of the place is furnifh d with an
inexhaustible fund of mud, and commands a pro e& of
goinile# up aid down the river. There afr: on the pre
miles the walls cf a brick house, thirty by twenty feet,
with new joists from top to bottom, and all the materi
als on the ipot for finishing the carpenters work, which
will be fold cheap to the purchaser of the land ; like
wise, a good barn and filed. The payments will be
made as easy as piffible, and the particulars made
known on the day of fair, or sooner, by apph ing to
DAVIS BEVAN, Executor.
N. B. There is fine sport both for filhing and fowl
ing ; n h^r featons.
To be Sold at Public Vendue)
On Saturday the nth of April, at the Coffee-Houiej
at 12 o'clock,
A Valuable SITUATION for a SNUFF MILL;
on the Lancaster road, 5 and a half miles front
this city, containing one acre, three quarters and
twenty perches, on a never failing dream or water; the
dam ar ,d race is almost ficifhed ; the lower story of the
nidi house is built of good itene :on the premises is an
excellent Quarry. An indifpivahle title will be given.
April I JOHN EDVARD, Au& oneer.
N B. The purchaser may be supplied with the prin
cipal Materials for the Mill, on very reasonable terms.
The Rainbow Tavern
To be L E T, and entered on Immediately.
A Large, convenient three ttory brick HOUSE
and a two iterv frame House adjoining, with a
Lot of Ground 240 feet in depth, situated in Second
ftreet, a little above the barracks. For terms enquire
of HENRY GURNEY, in the Northern- Liberties.
Philadelphia, October ji, 1782.