This paper considers the relationship between the practice of resuscitation in mid- to late eighteenth-century Britain, and vitalist physiology and medicine. It explores how the mix of mystery and fact presented in the scene of reanimation, and manifested in the resuscitated body as the site of such a compelling conjunction, is negotiated in contemporary vitalist theories of life and theoretical reflections on natural philosophical method. In this, it gives a particular prominence to the Scottish vitalists, especially William Cullen. It considers the attractions of resuscitation for addressing the particular epistemological predicament faced by vitalism: its combination of post-Newtonian empiricism and the inevitable conjecture-or "provisionally inexplicable explicative device"-necessary when faced with the mysteries of life. Finally, the cultural life of vitalism is considered in the work of William Hawes, Humane Society founder, and John Thelwall, radical journalist.

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叙述复苏：18 世纪活力主义的理论、知识和文化生活

本文考虑了 18 世纪中后期英国的复苏实践与活力论生理学和医学之间的关系。它探讨了在复活的场景中呈现的神秘与事实的混合，以及在复苏的身体中表现为这种引人注目的结合的场所，如何在当代活力论生命理论和对自然哲学方法的理论反思中进行协商。在这方面，它特别突出了苏格兰活力论者，尤其是威廉·卡伦。它考虑了复苏的吸引力，以解决活力论面临的特定认识论困境：它结合了后牛顿经验主义和不可避免的猜想——或“暂时无法解释的解释装置”——在面对生命的奥秘时是必要的。最后，