so extended in its form. I mean only to assert and to maintain, that a fair, full, and compleat trial of this Process, so effective in particular cases, which are apparently most unfavourable to its process, ought to be adopted as a general Principle.

We shall, I trust, agree that in the prosecution of an experiment so important, it would be contrary to every maxim of sound Philosophy and good sense, to prescribe any limits for its application, when we are ignorant in what cases it may succeed, and when we know likewise, that even in its failure we have lost nothing but the labour employed in the expe riment.

There is another observation, which must be placed fully before the view of the reader at the concluding recapitulation of the purpose of the present work. As one object of this Discussion is to recall Suspended Life, so another object, still more important, is to prevent the consummation of Human Horrors-the Horror of a revival in the Grave. As far as Human prudence can avail,and as far as Human knowledge at present extends, we guard against this unspeakable horror; when we ascertain the state

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of absolute Death by discovering, that the frame resists all the arts of the Resuscitative Process adopted for its revival. Yet we have seen in the preceding discussion, how tenaciously Life clings to a frame apparently dead-how imperfect all our arts of revival are-how negligently these arts may sometimes be applied--how fallacious the signs of Putrefaction are,and how operative the genial influence of the warm Earth is in the process of Resuscitation. It appears then finally to be our duty, when we have abandoned all means of recovery in despair, and when the moment is at last arrived, that the body must be nailed in the coffin and committed to the ground, to cut off still more and more every possible chance of revival under these horrors by performing such an operation on the body, which all would agree to be completely effectual in preventing this mighty calamity. Such is the final result of the meditations, which have possessed the mind of the writer, on the view of a new and important subject, in a Treatise on the DISORDER Of Death.

CONCLUSION OF THE WORK.

Zeal and Perseverance most important in the Resuscitative Process-Illustrated in a Curious Anecdote of the successful exertions of the EMPEROR ALEXANDER in recovering a drowned person.

We have seen, that zeal and diligence in performing the Resuscitative Process, rather than the means employed, are the most important agents in affecting the destined purpose of the work. It is by this continued action of persevering efforts, that great Spirits perform great projects. These beings must be contented often to use such means and such instruments, which are ready at their hands; but the energy of their own minds,urging the projected work with unsubdued activity, will create powers, and raise these humble agents into engines of prodigious might. I shall close my work, on the recovery of Suspended Animation, by producing an illustrious example indeed of a great Artist, who obtained his purpose by unwearied exertions of zeal and activity, and redeemed the victim of Death from the jaws of an untimely

grave, tho' abandoned in despair by all present at the scene. This most singular and interesting narrative is detailed by a well known Traveller, Sir John Carr, ( See his Tour thro' Holland, p. 284. 5. 6. ) and I produce this memorable story of the Imperial Artist as an example to be followed and to be reverenced by all future operators, who shall engage in the same work-a work, which pre-eminently demands for its successful issue every good feeling and every zealous exertion.

"In one of the journeys which his Imperial Majesty the Emperor Alexander made through Poland, as he was riding alone, his attendants being considerably behind him, on the banks of the little river Wilna, which flows between Kouna and Wilna in Lithuania, he perceived some persons assembled near the edge of the water, out of which they appeared to be dragging something; he instantly alighted, and on approaching the spot, found it to be the body of a man apparently lifeless. Urged by those exalted sensibilities which regard rank and er only as bounties delegated by heaven for the benefit of mankind, the Monarch, without any other assistance than that of the ignorant boors about him, who from his uniform could only

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conceive him to be an officer of rank, drew the apparent corpse completely from the water, and laid it on the side of a bank, and with his own hands took off the wet clothes of the poor sufferer, and began to rub his temples and breast, which he continued to do for a considerable time with the most ardent anxiety, but found all efforts to restore Animation ineffectual: In the midst of this humane occupation, the Emperor was joined by the gentlemen of his suite, amongst whom were Prince Wolkousky, and Count Liewen, two Russian noblemen, and Dr. Weilly, his Majesty's principal surgeon, an English gentleman of distinguished professional talents, who always travels with, and is scarcely ever absent from his majesty. They united their exertions to those of the Emperor, and when Dr. Weilly attempted, but in vain, to bleed the poor creature, his Majesty supported and chafed his arms, and lent every other assistance in his power: for three hours were they thus employed in the ardour of humanity, but saw no symptoms of returning life, and Dr. Weilly pronounced the patient irrecoverable."

Fatigued as the Emperor was with these unceasing exertions, he would not relinquish the work as a hopeless one, but by his own example