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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    [ wo i] into confideration ; which is, the difficulty of infpecting thofe parts; for whoever is acquainted with the flender ftructure of thofe mufcles, will readily conceive, that without uncommon care and attention in the neceflary diflection, much more pro- bably than has ufually been beftowed upon it, the weak and feeble power of. contraction will be deftroyed ; for the leaft preffure on the tongue, or motion of the windpipe, at this time, when the irritabi- lity is fo nearly exhaufted, would be fuffi- cient to elevate the epiglottis. Allowing then, what is, I think, clear- ly proved, that death is caufed by a con- tration of the parts about the larynx ftopping refpiration—it {till remains to enquire, concerning the manner in which this ftoppage of refpiration acts, fo as to occafion that effect. This part of the fubjeé& is echo with many difficulties and embarraffments ; and notwithftanding that it has been at- tended to by men of the firft abilities, as . yet
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