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Library of mesmerism and psychology (1871)

Fishbough, William, 1814-1881, Newman, John B, Dods, John Bovee, 1795-1872, Haddock, Joseph W · New York : S.R. Wells · leaf 332

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marks that in cases of suspended anima-tion, by hanging, drowning, or catalepsy the vital prin-ciple continues attached to the body after all the vitalfunctions cease to act, often for half an hour, and some-times for hours. In the year 1769, Mr. John Hunterbeing then forty-one years of age, of a… … GANGLIONIC SYSTEM OF VEGETABLE LIFE. 86 VOLUNTARY TRANCE. the action of the heart and lungs. By the power of thawill, or rather by violent striving, he occasionally inflated the lungs, but over the heart he had no controlwhatever; nor, though he was attended by four of thechief physicians of London…

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