Process of correcting physiological disorders, such as lack of breathing or heartbeat, in an acutely unwell patient

Stories of the Royal Humane Society / by Frank Mundell.

First aid memory chart : designed for A.R.P. first aid workers & learners / by Harold E. Palmer, D. Litt. & W. Rougier Chapman, Surgeon Lieut. Commander R.N.V.R. ; approved by the St. John Ambulance Association.

Important recommendations to rescuers / Royal Life Saving Society.

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.

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.

pages 311-316 : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm

Resuscitation experiments and breathing apparatus of Alexander Graham Bell / Alfred R. Henderson.

Bulletin de la Société française de sauvetage : assemblée générale du 7 Décembre 1884.

Cardiac arrest and resuscitation / Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr.

Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

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Resuscitation experiments and breathing apparatus of Alexander Graham Bell / Alfred R. Henderson.

Bulletin de la Société française de sauvetage : assemblée générale du 7 Décembre 1884.

Cardiac arrest and resuscitation / Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr.

Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

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Resuscitation experiments and breathing apparatus of Alexander Graham Bell / Alfred R. Henderson.

Bulletin de la Société française de sauvetage : assemblée générale du 7 Décembre 1884.

Cardiac arrest and resuscitation / Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr.

Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

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