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DISSERTATION

ON THE

DISORDER OF DEATH;

Or that State of the Frame under the Signs of Death

CALLED

SUSPENDED ANIMATION;

TO WHICH

Remedies

Have been sometimes successfully applied, as in other Disorders, In which it is recommended, that the same Remedies of the Resuscitative Process should be applied to cases of

NATURAL DEATH,

As they are to cases of Violent Death, Drowning, &c. under the same hope of sometimes succeeding in the attempt.

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REV. WALTER WHITER,
RECTOR OF HARDINGHAM, NORFOLK,

AND

LATE FELLOW OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

"Death may usurp on nature many hours,

And yet the fire of Life kindle again

The o'erpressed spirits."

(SHAKSPEARE.)

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

SOLD BY 3. HAYES, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON; DEIGHTON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE; AND W. BOOTH,

NORWICH.

BOOL LIBR

16 JAN. 1918

Beeth & Ball, Printers, Norwich,

PREFACE.

IT has afforded a frequent topic of observation, that a train of ideas, wholly remote from the general course of our studies or pursuits, sometimes seizes upon the mind, and continues in different periods of life, under various degrees of interest or effect, to excite our feelings and to occupy our reflections. Powerful impress→ ions of this kind have long possessed the Writer of the present Work, and they have at last been exhibited under a visible form in the discussion of a theme, which is wholly foreign to the familiar object of his daily meditations. On such an occasion, it may be necessary perhaps briefly to commemorate a few facts, which are connected with the compilation and appearance of the present Volume.

A period of twenty years has now almost elapsed,, since the materials of the work were collected-at a time favourable

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