An account of some societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the recovery of drowned persons, and of similar institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna, and Paris; with a collection of authentic cases proving the practicability of extending the benefits of their practice to the recovery of persons visibly dead by sudden stoppages of breath, suffocation, stifling, swooning, convulsions, and other accidents
By: By Alexander Johnson, M.D.
Publisher: [Sold by John Nourse, in the Strand; S. Leacroft, at Charing-Cross; J. Robson, in New Bond-Street; ... [and three others]
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Asphyxia; Drowning; Apparent Death; Resuscitation
Notes: With second t.p. 'A short account of a society, etc.', as in preceding but with imprint added.

ESTC T120894.

Copy 2. Gift of Royal Humane Society. Bound with: Franks, J. Observations on animal life, and apparent death. 1790. ; and, Coleman, E. A dissertation on suspended respiration. 1791. Bound in 19th century marbled papers with leather spine and corners. On front of upper board: gold tooled ownership stamp bearing motto Lateat scintillula forsan. With manuscript notes in margins.