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    in promoting the views of the infant institution . But his wish to promote the welfare and happiness of others , was not limited or confined to one point . Early in the year 1776 , he published

    an examination of Wesley s Pri - mitive Physic . A work full of the grossest absurdities and the most dangerous remedies ; and which were likely to be destructive of the lives of many of those , over whom the name of Wesley had influence . This examination

    which passed through threfe large editions , it is believed has been very serviceable in promoting the humane and disinterested views of its author .

    About this time he received his diploma of M . D . In the autumn of this year , he gave his first course of lectures on suspended animation . The Dr / s object in delivering ! : these lectures , -was

    to excite an investigation of the subject in all its brandies , more particularly , to instruct the younger part of the faculty to preserve human life in every critical circumstance , in which the vital

    powers are liable to be suspended : an d to lead them into the consideration of the various derangements , which suspend the action of the principal vital organs * the brain- the heart * or gans the brain the heartor

    , , , the lungs ; pointing out to them the means to be employed in restoring their respective functions . The most proper methods of recovering persons from syncope ,

    inebriation , trance , drowning , suffocation by the cord , or noxious vapours , intense cold , or lightning , were fully explained by the Dr . ; as were albo ,. the several symptoms of apparent death

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    which sometimes supervene in acute diseases , but which might be often surmounted by suitable measures speedily adopted and vigorousl y pursued . The usual signs of death were duly considered ; and those which are certain

    distinguished from those which are equivocal . These lectures were continued for several years , and answered the very valuable purpose of turning the attention of many of his hearers to this benevolent , novel and interesting subject . In 1777 ? the Dr . first published his " Address to the

    Public on premature Death and premature Interment / ' At a considerable expense he distributed seven thousand of this Address , in the course of a few months ; he also offered the reward of

    one guinea to any nurse , or other attendant on any child or grown person returning to life by their humane attention ; provided the fact were ascertained by a gentleman of the faculty , or attested by three creditable persons .

    I he Dr . asserts , and no one who knew him can doubt it , that his view in incurring such heavy expenses was the hope of exciting an universal attention to a subject of so much importance to mankind .

    Sornetime in the year 1778 , a more active part in the managemeat of the affairs of the Humane Society devolved- on him , by his being chosen its register . This was still increased in the year

    17 SO , when Dr . Cogan returned to Holland . On this event , Dr . Hawes greatly regretted the loss of so able a colleague , and laments that the . task of arranging and preparing the annual reports

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    702 Memoir of Dr . Haxves .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/10/