PREEA CE Prove the advantages arifing from an obfervance of their rules. I appears, from thofe cafes, that perfons of all ages, from two years old, to feventy and upwards, have been recovered, though apparently dead when brought on fhore; that many perfons have been reftored, who have been immerfed from fifteen minutes to an hour and a half, and more; and in fuch inftances as nothing less than the most indifputable teftimony could render credible. And, notwithstanding the narrow limits to which these various Inftitutions have confined themselves, namely the fole attempt of recovering fuch as were drowned, they have, nevertheless, difcovered, by experience, what was hardly credited when reported by us, that relief may also be given in other accidents, where it has been ufual to defpair of it; fuck as fuffocation by fulphurous vapours and noxious air; alfo in cafes of ftrangling, overlaying, convulfive fits, apparent death by cold and other causes. But, furprifing as thefe difcoveries feemed, they had already been proved practicable in Great Britain; the Gentleman's Magazine had fong before given inftances, not alone of recoveries from drownings but of relief from the effects of damps in mines, of the vapour of live coals, of the confined air of wells and vaults, the confequences of various fits and accidents, which fuddenly deprive the body of breath. It might, therefore, fooner have been understood, that, as this kingdom is more interested than any other nation in the art of reftoring perfons under the appearance of fudden death, and as easily might it have been conceived, that the mines of different forts def troying yearly numbers of men by their fatal damps, as also, that perfons coming to untimely deaths by various cafualties, being more frequent in this than in other countries, the means of recovery would be of the utmoft confequence. We have lately been informed, that a general plan, agreeable to the idea of extenfive utility formerly fet forth by us (all partial attempts being inadequate), was offered to this country about two years ago, by a gentleman who ftudied and practifed phyfic abroad. This plan was calculated to introduce at large into this kingdom the practice of restoring perfons to life under all circumstances producing thei appearance of fudden death from causes known or unknown, where the parts effential to life are not defroyed. An undertaking of this kind, properly encouraged and cultivated, would have taken root in every part of this country, and would have been productive of numberless recoveries, as, foon as the univerfality of the practice had demonftrated, that the means propofed were applicable to that multitude of cafes where the animal powers are in reality only fufpended, and remain capable of renewing all their functions, on being put into motion again. Why this useful fcheme was difregarded may, parhaps, be less owing to neglect, than to the want of the neceffary affiftance of a well-regulated police, which co-operates to establish matters that require public concurrence. Be this as it may, our fteady endeavours in contributing to the dif play of fubjects the most interefting to mankind, fhall continue to characterife the work in which we are engaged, whatever may be the purfuit of our numerous competitors. London Prices of Grain.Meteorological Diary.-Bill of Mortality. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from Jan. 3, to Jan. 8, 1774. Wheat Rye Bar. Oats Beans 5 73 03 d.fs. d.l COUNTIES INLAND. d. Middlesex 8,0 0,3 S 8 2 112 102 3 5 103 600 43 32 3/3 10 Lincola. York 03.92 33 5 Durham 23 10 Northumberland 6 14 Northampton 91 913 6 105 C3 103 03 9 Lancashire Rutland 03 Chefhire Leiceßer Monmouth 6 Nottingham 73 Derby 23 93 62 03 8,2 14 4 Stafford Cornwall Dorfet 0/2 2 Worcefter 6 Hampshire 4 4,2 34 3 Suffex S 40 03 12 Gloucefter 6 110 Wiltshire O Berks 5.00 93 12 23 5940 c3 22 02 9 WALES. Oxford 6 80 03 72 Bucks 6 3 10 0'3 2 74 3 3'3 10 513 A Meteorological DIARY of the Weather for FEBRUARY, 1773. NW NNE NE Barom. Therm. Weather. fmart froft night and day, thick hazey evening rain night and morn. bright mid d. fnowy aft. hard froft night and day, very bright and clear froft the fame, heavy air, with a little fnow ditto, very heavy day, fnow in the evening ditto, heavy dull day ditto, very dark heavy day froft continues,heavy morn.and ev.bright mid d. froft, much fnow in the night, a little in the day то Ditto ditto ditto SE fresh 29 8 33 ditto, a very bright clear day 33 SE little 4 S W ditto ftill frofty, a very heavy dull day an entire thaw in the night, rain most of the day a very heavy dull day a fair day, bright and cloudy at intervals a fair day, but not bright a heavy, dark, moist day heavy dull morning, bright afternoon bright morning till nine, a very wet day a very turbulent night, bright ferene day a hurricane in the night, very wet day funthine and cloudy at intervals, with fome rain chiefly bright, a fine mild day |