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Stories of the Royal Humane Society / by Frank Mundell.

Transactions of the Royal Humane Society : dedicated by permission to His Majesty by W. Hawes.

A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject to elucidate the approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill.

Reports of the Humane Society : Instituted in the year 1774, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. For the years M.DCC.LXXXV and M.DCC.LXXXVI.

Reports of the Humane Society : instituted in the year 1774, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. For the years 1783 and 1784.

Georg der Dritte, von Gottes Gnaden König von Groß-Britannien, Franckreich und Irrland,... Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg ... 1780, d. d. 24. Oct. Universal-Landes-Verordnung, die Aufhebung und Rettung der Ertruncknen, Erstickten, Erfrohrnen, u.s.w. betreffend.

Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.

[Reports ... for the years 1779 and 1780].

A dissertation on suspended respiration, from drowning, hanging, and suffocation: : in which is recommended a different mode of treatment to any hitherto pointed out. / By Edward Coleman, surgeon.

Manual of popular instructions, for recovering persons apparently dead from drowning, suffocation, lightning : to which are added, remarks on the accidents incident to children and cautions, hints &c to persons exposed to the accidents and diseases for the prevention and cure of which this tract is designed / drawn up under the sanction, and with the assistance of Dr. Hawes, institutor and treasurer of the Royal Humane Society, London.

An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.

Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks.

The seventy-third annual report [for 1846].

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An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.

Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks.

Transactions of the Royal Humane Society : dedicated by permission to His Majesty by W. Hawes.

The seventy-third annual report [for 1846].

Royal Humane Society (London, England)

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An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.

Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks.

Transactions of the Royal Humane Society : dedicated by permission to His Majesty by W. Hawes.

The seventy-third annual report [for 1846].

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