A dissertation on the disorder of death; or that state of the frame under the signs of death called suspended animationauthor, sold, 1819 - 480 Seiten |
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... form and invincible in its force . If Life be the greatest of blessings , as all confess by the dread of losing it , and by their arts and devices to preserve preserve it , which are sometimes doubtful and some times PREFACE . ix .
... form and invincible in its force . If Life be the greatest of blessings , as all confess by the dread of losing it , and by their arts and devices to preserve preserve it , which are sometimes doubtful and some times PREFACE . ix .
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... form and invincible in its force . If Life be the greatest of blessings , as all confess by the dread of losing it , and by their arts and devices to preserve preserve it , which are sometimes doubtful and some- times PREFACE . ix .
... form and invincible in its force . If Life be the greatest of blessings , as all confess by the dread of losing it , and by their arts and devices to preserve preserve it , which are sometimes doubtful and some- times PREFACE . ix .
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... force and spirit of their discoveries , that the only evidence on the total extinction of Life is to be found in that mode of decision , to which they have themselves resorted in those peculiar C2 peculiar instances , which they have ...
... force and spirit of their discoveries , that the only evidence on the total extinction of Life is to be found in that mode of decision , to which they have themselves resorted in those peculiar C2 peculiar instances , which they have ...
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... force and import be duly ex- plained and understood . Different expressions and different modes of conceiving a subject . may be properly adopted , if the facts , rela- ting to these expressions and modes of conception are distinctly ...
... force and import be duly ex- plained and understood . Different expressions and different modes of conceiving a subject . may be properly adopted , if the facts , rela- ting to these expressions and modes of conception are distinctly ...
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... force of his argument in the discussion of a Medical subject . — I am unwilling however to express what I find myself unable to feel , nor am I alarmed by any apprehensions of destroying or enfeebling the spirit of these enquiries , by ...
... force of his argument in the discussion of a Medical subject . — I am unwilling however to express what I find myself unable to feel , nor am I alarmed by any apprehensions of destroying or enfeebling the spirit of these enquiries , by ...
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absence of apparent accident action adopted afford alarms apparent Death apparent motion appearance applied Artist attended body cause cold concei conceive conceptions consider cure Darwin Dead Death of Sleep debility devices Diseases Disorder of Death doctrine Drowning dying endeavour enquiry Epilepsy Epileptic Euthanasia evil excited exertions exhibited experiments extraordinary facts faint familiar fatal Female Ferriar Fevers final and putrefactive former ages frame grave Hippocrates hopes horror Humane Societies Hydrophobia imagined important Interment Irritation justly likewise Malady mankind Medical ment mind mode morbid motion and sensation Natural Death Nervous affections Nosologists observed occasion operation opinions Patient perhaps period persons Physicians Poet powers practice Practitioner present produced Putrefactive Death recovered recovery relating remedy respiration restored Resuscitative Process rience siderable period signs of Death Sleep of Death sometimes species spirit story Suspended Animation System terminate tion train of ideas Trances truth various Vesalius Violent Death vital writer
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Seite 66 - Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Seite 196 - Angels prompt her golden dreams. For her th' unfading rose of Eden blooms, And wings of Seraphs shed divine perfumes, For her the spouse prepares the bridal ring. For her white virgins Hymeneals sing, To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, And melts in visions of eternal day.
Seite 66 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquered ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Seite 433 - Every muscle in his countenance was simultaneously thrown into fearful action; rage, horror, despair, anguish, and ghastly smiles, united their hideous expression in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fuseli or a Kcan.
Seite 219 - ... feelings, and from which I saw no possibility of relief: when suddenly I observed at the distance of ten paces from me a figure — the figure of a deceased person. I pointed at it, and asked my wife whether she did not see it. She saw nothing, but being ;much alarmed endeavoured to compose me, and sent for the physician. The figure remained some seven or eight minutes, and at length I became a little more calm ; and as I was extremely exhausted, I soon afterwards fell into a troubled kind of...
Seite 145 - We all three felt his pulse first ; it was distinct, though small and thready ; and his heart had its usual beating. He composed himself on his back, and lay in a still posture some time ; while I held his right hand, Dr. Baynard laid his hand on his heart, and Mr. Skrine held a clean lookingglass to his mouth. I found his pulse sink gradually, till at last I could not feel any by the most exact and nice touch. Dr. Baynard could not feel the least motion in...
Seite 205 - Sibyllae. ventum erat ad limen, cum virgo, 'poscere fata tempus,' ait ; 'deus, ecce, deus ! ' cui talia fanti ante fores subito non vultus, non color unus, non comptae mansere comae ; sed pectus anhelum, et rabie fera corda tument ; maiorque videri nec mortale sonans, adflata est numine quando 50 iam propiore dei. ' cessas in vota precesque, Tros,' ait, ' Aenea, cessas ? neque enim ante dehiscent attonitae magna ora domus.
Seite 145 - ... he could die or expire when he pleased, and yet by an effort, or somehow, he could come to life again; which he had sometimes tried before he sent for us.
Seite 146 - As we were going away, we observed some motion about the body, and upon examination, found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning : he began to breathe gently and speak softly...
Seite 223 - ... nature, though they certainly had their origin internally ; and at the same time I was always able to distinguish with the greatest precision phantasms from phenomena. Indeed, I never once erred in this, as I was in general perfectly calm and self-collected on the occasion. I knew extremely well...