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    of the society should have " Fallen into hands of such inferior ability ; " but hopes thati his zeal -will compensate for the want of abijity , that the important cause then entrusted to his sole care ,

    might not be permitted to languish . -Those only , who have witnessed the labour and fatigue which the various and multiplied concerns of the society necessarily impose on him , who is entrusted with the entire direction

    of them , can justly appreciate the value and extent of his unceasing exertions , for promoting a cause so near his heart , and with which his own happiness , as well as the happiness of others , was interwoven . The Dr .

    remarks that * , soon after this time the execution of the reports of this Institution became more complex and intricate . As the instances of resuscitation

    multiplied , he observes , that new and improved modes of treatment suggested themselves to skilful practitioners ; and that other species of apparent death than those hitherto treated , were also brought within the reach of art . These

    circumstances , arising from the liberal spirit and unexampled fervor manifested by the medical assistants , in the prosecution of { heir life-saving views , concurred to render the task more operose and complicated . But he adds , all these difficulties sunk before

    the pleasing contemplation of the immense good that would result to mankind from it . In 1781 , Dr . Hawes published " An Address to the King and

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    Parliament of Great Britain , on preserving the Lives of the Inhabitants , and on regulating the Bills of Mortality / ' To the ^ third edition of this work were made

    u very considerable additions ; particularly farther hints for restoring animation * and for preserving health against the pernicious influence of noxious vapours , or contaminated air , by simple and efficacious means ;" in a letter to him from Dr .

    Anthony FothergilL The mind of Dr . Hawes was uniformly and ardently employed in the general cause of humanity . His views of beneficence were by no rnean ^ confined to ihe objects connected with the Institution of

    which he was the zealous advocate and unwearied promoter . His whole life was a constant exemplification of his motto ; " homo sum , humani nihil a me alfenum puto . " He did not suffer his

    exertions to abate , because he could not succeed in the first , second ^ or third attempt ; but persevered with uncommon ardour , till he could-obtain the object he wished to promote for the good of others . Numerous are the instances of his

    anonymous appeals to the public liberality for the relief of virtuous indigence or unavoidable misery . In the year 1793 , the introduction of the general use of cottons in the stead of silk , having

    occasioned as was to be expected , a want of employment to the weavers of silk in Spitalfields , a great deal of disease , distress , and positive want were the consequences Dr . Hawes , in his capacity ot

    * In the transactions of the Society , from 1774 to 1784 , published in 1796 , by T ) r , Hawes .

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    Memoir of Dr . Hhwes . 1 703

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/11/