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    were no sooner translated $ than they engaged the benevolent and humane mind of Mr . Hawes . He immediately advertised that

    he would pay rewards to those , who would acquaint him within a certain time , of any person who had been drowned in his neighbourhood- This he did till the

    society was established in the following year . And , certainly , he could not have given a more sincere or disinterested proof of his wish to promote so valuable and benevolent an object .

    In the spring of 1774 , Mr . Hawes published his < c Account of the late Dr . Goldsmith ' s illness , so far as relates to the exhibition of Dr . James ' s powder ; together with remarks on th ^ use and abuse of that powerful medicine , in the beginning of acute disease . " Dr . Goldsmith-was Jbis

    intimate friend and one of the first whom he consulted on his plan of offering the rewjards just mentioned . Mr . Hawes ' s ilnly motive in this publication , appears to have been the wish of

    being serviceable to others ; and to prevent men , if possible , from destroying their own lives by the injudicious use of strpng and ( what are called ) infailimie remedies . If the desire I h ^ Ve , he

    obseryes , to warn mankind against the fatal effects , produced by the indiscriminate exhibition of vari - ous pptent medicines , has betrayed me into an improper

    warmth of expression , I hope to stand excused by the humane and sensible part of the public , when it is considered that the preservation of the lives of my fellow creatures was my principal inducement to it * He acknow-

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    ledges however , with the greatest candour , that much good has arisen from the proper and skilful exhibition of Dr . James's powder , in many cases of fever ; but declares that he has also seen

    several cases in which it has proved highly injurious . In an advertisement to a fourth edition of this account , he remarks , ' it is not my disposition to be uncandid ^ nor my wish to injure the circumstances of any rpan ; but whatever in the form of a medicine .

    appears likely to produce a public injury , I am determined to expose . * I have made quacks of all denominations my sworn enemies : but what medical man , ot honour and reputation , would wish to be upon tolerable terms with the murderers of the human

    race . " In the summer of this year ( 1774 , ) an association of thirty gentlemen , one half of whom were the friends of Dr . Cogan , and : the other of Mr . Hawes ,

    formed themselves into a society , whose object , like that of Amsterdam , was to promote the recovery of persons who were apparently dead by drowning ; and lik ^ e that society also , their views were at first confined to the

    recovery of the drowned . Other respectable names were soon added to the list ; and som ^ successful cases b ^ gan to increase its numbers and reputation . Dr . Cogan , during his continuance in

    England , prepared the reports , of the society from year to year ; that he did it with judgment would be unnecessary to say , as he can do nothing but with the hand of a master . During this time , Mr . Hawes was most zealously active

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    Memoir of Dr . Havo c * . 701

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    TOL . III . 5 A

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/9/