Rules for recovering persons recently drowned: in a letter to the Rev. G. Rogers / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1794
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Credit: Rules for recovering persons recently drowned: in a letter to the Rev. G. Rogers / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I ^vere all young, and in the bloom of health, and tifeful in their various dations to the com¬ munity. It is lamentable to add, that none of them could be faved $ yet it has been affirmed, none of them were long in a date of fubmerfion; the longed, they fay, not exceeding a quarter of an hour, and fome of them much fhorter. This want of fuccefs has been confiderably greater than what has fallen to the lot of prac¬ titioners in other parts of England, fince the time that the exertions of the Humane Society fird began to extend themfelves. Doubtlefs, thofe who were prefent ufed their bed: endeavours; nor is it meant by this, in the mod didant degree, to throw reflections on them. I beg you will difperfe thefe few obfervations as far as your influence reaches, that the common people at lead, may, in fome meafure, be pre¬ pared to ufe their endeavours in a manner likely to be fuccefsful, Ihould they hereafter be called ony from like events, to put them into practice ; and to this, your known humanity, I am perfuaded, will induce you. All I think neceflary to fay here,- fball be Couched under a very few heads; and on each f fhall be as fhort as the nature of the thing will permit, to be explicit, that the cautions conveyed, * ar>d
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