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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