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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    % [ 66 ] occafion a predifpofition to that affection ; and, as the manner in which they may operate, fo as to produce that effect, will, I imagine, be readily underftood, I fhall fatisfy myfelf with merely mentioning them, and refer thofe who require any further information on this part of the fubject, to the numerous writers on that diforder. Large heads. Short necks. Corpulency. Indolent life, with full diet. - Frequent intoxication. Plethoric conftitution. Suppreflion of ufual evacuations. Advanced ftate of pregnancy. Polypous concretions. Tumors within the fkull. Hydropic diathefis ; In thofe efpecially above 50 years of age. Apoplexy
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