A short account of a society at Amsterdam ... for the recovery of drowned persons; with observations showing the ... advantage that would accrue to great Britain from a similar institution extended to cases of suffocation by damps in mines, choaking, etc / [Alexander Johnson].

  • Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799
Date:
[1773?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short account of a society at Amsterdam ... for the recovery of drowned persons; with observations showing the ... advantage that would accrue to great Britain from a similar institution extended to cases of suffocation by damps in mines, choaking, etc / [Alexander Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Rewards publifhed by them for attempting the recovery of a drowned perfon, were the fum of Six Ducats, or a Gold Medal, over and above all expences attending the fame, not exceeding Four Ducats. The great fuccefs of this undertaking, and the advantages accruing from it to the State, has induced each of the feveral Provinces of the Republic of the Low Countries to take proper meafures for extending the benefits of it, by enjoining an obfervance of the Society’s diredtions through their refpedtive diftridts. The falutary effedts of this inftitution are now no longer confined to the United Provinces-jthe Boards of Health at Ve¬ nice, at Milan and Padua, have adopted it—The City of Hamburgh has done the fame—/The Emprefs of Ruflia has coun¬ tenanced it in her dominions—The Em¬ prefs Queen of Plungary has given very particular encouragement to it—And in France
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