whether the Archæus of the System has been unguarded in the means, by which the remedy has been conducted, or whether Man has been negligent in his search respecting the mysterious mode, by which the purposes of the directing Principle were intended to be effec ted. Such is the destiny of our condition sometimes by the laws of nature, and sometimes by the perverseness of our own devices that the antidote and the bane are inseperably involved with each other-that the struggles, which are potent in obtaining a good, operate finally in its loss, and that success and miscarriage are consummate i at the same moment and by the same means. "These violent" conflicts still "have violent ends, "And in their triumphs die." ТИЕ Sleep of Death AND THE Death of Sleep. Introductory Remarks on the Sleep of Death and the Death of Sleep: The superficial notions of Mankind on this resemblance so universally acknowledged-Various states of Suspended and Weakened Animation detailed, as likewise Disturbed actions of the frame tending to these states or terminating in their appearance. The power of the frame under suspended animation to recorer the former countenance, distorted by the struggles of Death: The lovely appearance of the young and beautiful as if sleeping.-Descrip tion of the Po ts.--Various Appearances→→ Diseases--Accidents attached to the frame, tending to,or terminating in Suspended or Weak. ened Animation; as, The state directly preceding and and following what is called Death ; &c. Fainting Fits, Epilepsy, Nervous or Hysterical Affec tions &c. The art or accident of Dying exhibited by Women, Enthusiasts, Prophets, Prophetesses; with their Trances, Visions &c.-The uncertainty of the Signs of Death still more and more illus trated by these cases, and the hopes of success from the Resuscitative process more confirmed :—The baneful and abominable practices adopted, about the dying and the dead, by Nurses &c.—The neg ligent conduct and futile or absurd directions of Medical Practitioners. A new comfort sugges ted for the attainment of Euthanasia. Introductory on the Sleep of Death and the Death of Sleep. I shall in this portion of my work consider the resemblance between the Sleep of Death and the Death of Sleep; and in the same Article I shall discuss likewise those topics, which are involved with the train of ideas excited in the progress of my enquiries. It will be expedient here to consider the vari ous states of Suspended or Weakened Animation, and such conditions of Disordered or Disturbed action of the Frame, which commonly pass into these states of langour and debility. The consideration of the several topics, which are here to be examined, may again be conveniently arranged in distinct portions portions of a minuter kind, such as the writer shall imagine to be best adapted to the perspicuity of his argument. The introductory observations will describe the perverted or contracted notions of mankind on those familiar spectacles, which at every moment pass before our view, the Sleep of Death and the Death of Sleep:-They will shew us that the great and important points of that resem blance between Death and Sleep, which is so striking and universally acknowledged, have probably never yet been discovered or conceived. The descriptions of the Poets will first be exhibited on this subject, and I shall venture to observe, that these personages are not such unfurnished Philosophers, as some are inclined to believe, but that on the contrary they may be safely summoned to our aid in the discussion of Physical questions, if we are careful to distinguish the imagery by which they are enabled to illustrate, from that, by which they are accustomed to confound. I shall produce the well known facts, which relate to the power, possessed by the frame, in a state of Suspended Animation, of resum ing its ancient countenance, after the distortion, which the features have suffered during the struggles of Death, and I shall describe describe, assisted by the Poets, the lovely appearance, which the young and beautiful exhibit after Death, as if they were reposing in a sweet and placid sleep.-It will then be expedient to consider, under a Medical point of view, the accidents attached to Suspended or Weakened animation, as likewise such Morbid or Disturbed actions of the frame, which naturally fall into these weakened and languid conditions. And here we shall find it necessary to detail a variety of Appearances Diseases, Affections, Passions, Accidents, Associations, &c. &c. natural and acquired, attached to the frame, which arise from various causes, but which tend to the same point, or terminate in a similar manner; as The state preceding and following that period, which we call DEATH, Fainting Fits, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, Syncope, violent Nervous affections, the extreme stages of Hypochondria or Hysterica Passio, the Art or accident of Dying, by procuring or suffering certain states of Suspended or Weakened animation,as acquired by some, and exhibited by Women for peculiar purposes, by Enthusiasts, Prophets, Prophetesses, Jugglers, &c. with their Trances Visions, &c. &e. This |