There was plenty of hot water in the boiler, and plenty of flannel to be had.

With these, with my medicines, and with such help as Arthur could render under my direction, I dragged the man literally out of the jaws of death.

In less than an hour from the time when I had been called in, he was alive and talking in the bed on which he had been laid out to wait for the coroner's inquest.
You will naturally ask me what had been the matter with him, and I might treat you, in reply, to a long theory, plentifully sprinkled with what the children call hard words.

I prefer telling you that, in this case, cause and effect could not be satisfactorily joined together by any theory whatever.

There are mysteries in life and the conditions of it which human science has not fathomed yet; and I candidly confess to you that, in bringing that man back to existence, I was, morally speaking, groping haphazard in the dark.