Condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body

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Journal de Medicine, Chirurgie, Pharmacie.

The physiology, pathology, and treatment of asphyxia: including suspended animation in new-born children - and from drowning - hanging - wounds of the chest - mechanical obstructions of the air-passages - respiration of gases - death from cold, &c. &c. / by James Phillips Kay.

A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.

Of special value in chronic hypopiesis : the new water-soluble analeptic Coramine.

Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.

Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.

The new water-soluble analeptic with a camphor action : Coramine (pyridine-β-carbonic acid diethylamide).

To stimulate the herat and the respiration : Coramine "Ciba".

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.

Instrument for those drowned, 19th century

El mejor amigo del pueblo : ó coleccion de consejos de los hombres mas sábios para curar á los enfermos y socorrer á los envenenados.

Asphyxia. Pt. 2.

Dissertatio medico physiologica inauguralis de asphyxia ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Gloster, Hibernus.

The principles of forensic medicine : systematically arranged, and applied to British practice / By John Gordon Smith.

Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.

A week in the life of a family that uses their fair share of resources / by Asphyxia.

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A week in the life of a family that uses their fair share of resources / by Asphyxia.

Asphyxia

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A week in the life of a family that uses their fair share of resources / by Asphyxia.

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