Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-30

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yond him in my defires, 10 thatl am re-
iolyed 10 have review of iocietY at 500,
1000, and at 500 years hence.
/ am not confident OF the praeaeabilisy
of the thing; and hereby invite any one
or two of your readers who map be IN
clined to be OF the party. | ATTIRE them
il is much iafer adventure than that OF
the air balloon. We lhall be ableto make
msny ufefuI obfervarions, not onll on the
q W changes produced by time on the d'f-
teron; fpecies of animated beings, but
ihali ALTO be able TO afcertain, with mere
preciion, the bearings and tendency otmy
pufpofed procedure.
Having fome years fince read, in The
tranfattions of the Royal Society, an ac-
COUNT of the recovery Of man who had
lain under the ice in a p nj Tor fourteen
days, ] iet myfelf to conhder by what.
means the principle of life had been, N
his cafe, 70 long continued. This naiu.
rally led me into inquiries concerning the
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nature OF animation. Life is the rebuilt OF
a we'll organizedframe. Inhances OF full
penilonof lie often occur from tuftoca',on
an! from ltrong agitation in the at etl-
ons of the mind, Whit the organization
continues unimpaired; by proper ma
nagemeni life may, at any time, be reitof-
cd. So foon, however, as corruption
commences, 70 as 10 injuse the minute
texture OF The body, Ievivication IS i'm
podible. The corruption, where the ami
marion is flfp-nded in ordinary cafes, com
mences. Ia fever and mott diisaies which
occur, the body, 10 fome vital part, i. ".
fate OF corruption before lie departs
and, in many cafes, when the fate Of
The body is entire, corruption commences
before the means Of recovery can be ap-
piled.
The great enquiries to be made are
what is corruption and what is the
cafe of il low is it TO be romored : and
how retarded, or prevented lift. Cor
ruption 10 aoimal fubtances, is tie gene
ration of saamalcula, which preys upon
the fubfance and defroy the organza-
ton IDLY, cannot enter into the cauie'
of this animalcular generation only
oblerve that the circumstances which fern
to favor les propagation are chiefly GER
tain degree of heat molure 5dly, In
animal bodies, there is always enough OF
moiaure and in the larger animals de
gree of heat fuficicnt to generate that cor
rupsion in very thort time, which pre-
cludes the potlibility OF recovery. Salts,
fpices, fyrur, vinous, and fpiIituous IL
quor, have tendency to prevent the &C.
nlra.lon OF corruption, in the bodies OF the
iimaller tribes but we have never found
that they penetrate larger, 10 faddenly as
20 produce the effect OF preferyation of the
vltals lalts too, / hould conceive, will
have the effect of ccrroding The finer
organs; 70 as TO be fatal as the diieale in.
tended TO be prevented. Freeing TOO 81
though i, prevents all corruption, is as
completely fatal a. any thing, by tear
ing, and dealoying the timer texture fthe
body.
But the grea.ea degree of cold next TO
fceezing, appears to have the effect ofpre-
venting every fpecies of decay, and to
have 30 bad effect on the organization OF
the animal frame. Such degree is TO
&c expected in water Immediately undes
he ice and in fuch . temperature OF
cold is that which is 10 be fought for,
for The purpoie of prelerviug the body OF
mi mails % as to be at all times fit tor be
ingreltored to life. II there were proper
management in the endeavors to bring
alive people falling through the ice 10
winter, this could never fail of lucceis,
anlels fome fatal contuion had occurred !:
But 1 great PREPARATORY TO re- animation,
is mott OF all in general neglected. In
Summer bathing the extremlties OF man
artlo benumbeiwith ,he cold as TO require
ZONE time before circulation is reitored,