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.

  • Charles Kite
Date:
1788
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uf Po L] hefitate one moment in pronouncing, the reftoring the action of the lungs to be of the very firft importance in all our at- tempts to recover the apparently dead. Dr. Fothergill, with great propriety, com- pares the lungs ‘of drowned people to a clock whofe pendulum is ftopped; yet, fays he, renew but the action of the lungs in the one, and touch but the pendulum in the other, and all again is life and motion. The fame gentleman obferves, in another place, that to inflate the lungs, efpecially of drowned perfons, completely, requires no inconfiderable fhare of fkill and dexte- rity. To effect this intention, iM orders of the Society dire€&t an affiftant to blow into the mouth through a coarfe cloth, or to intro- duce the nozzle of a pair of bellows either into the noftril or mouth. The blowing into the mouth may, upon an emergency, an{wer for a few times ; but the difficulty of getting people to continue it will be oe conceived, on account of the ope- ; ration
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