১২৮৯ ) জাল প্রতাপচাদ । : ፃእ কথা শুনা যায়। ডাক্তার টানার সাহেব গিয়াছেন, যে একজন পাদরি যখনই লিখিয়াছেন যে, দেহের উপর মনের ইচ্ছা করিতেন তখনই আপনার সংজ্ঞাকে একাধিপত্য অতি অসাধারণ, এ সম্বন্ধে স্বতন্ত্র করিয়া আপনি জ্ঞানশূন্য ও প্রাণঅতি আশ্চৰ্য্য আশ্চৰ্য্য ঘটনার প্রমাণ শূন্য হইয়া পড়িয়া থাকিতে পারিআছে। যথা সেলসাস সাহেব বলিয়। তেন।” He continued to talk very distinctly and sensibly above a quarter of an hour about this (to him) surprizing sensation and insisted so much on our seeing the trial made, that we were at last forced to comply. We all three felt his pulse first : it was distinct, tho’ small and threedy : 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 looking glass 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 his heart, nor Mr. Skrine the least soil of breath on the bright mirror he held to his mouth ; then each of us by turns examined his arm, heart and breath, but could not by the micest scrutiny discover the least symptom of life in him. We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance as well as we could, and all of us judging it inexplicable and unaccountable, and finding he still continued in that condition, we began to conclude that he had indeed carried the experiment too far, and at last were satisfied he was actually dead, and were just ready to leave him. This continued about half an hour. By nine O'Clock in the morning in autumn, 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: we were all astonished to the last degree at this unexpected change, and after some further conversation with him, and among ourselves, went away fully satisfied as to all the particulars of this fact, but confounded and puzzled and not able to form any rational scheme that might account for it”—Quoted by T. H. Tanner in his Practice of Medicine. “The influence of the will over even the involuntary muscles is sometimes extraordinary, as many remarkable cases attest. Thus ئه ده
