Humane Society. For the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning
Subtitle: Instituted in the year 1774
Contributors: Adams, Thomas, -1813, former owner
Publisher: [Humane Society]
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Medical Societies; Resuscitation; Drowning
Notes: Title from half-title.

Dated on internal evidence: Society's resolution on p. 15; letter on p. 24.

The final leaf contains advertisements for two publications, the first for Dodsley, Cadell, Dilly and Dennis, and the second for Cadell.

Not in ESTC.

ESTC T20651.

Hanson, 2921.

Copy 1. Original glazed blue wrappers. With paper label annotated by Thomas Adams. This pamphlet is one of a group of items which were part of the papers of Thomas Adams (d. 1813), solicitor, agent for the Duke of Northumberland and owner of Eshott Hall, south of Alnwick (purchased in 1783). They were sold at auction in Carlisle by Thomson Roddick & Medcalf auctioneers in July & August 2008.