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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    [ 1+ ] however were removed by a cordial ad- miniftered to her. In the fpace of four hours and a half (he was fo much better* as to be carried home, and put to bed to her filler, where (he fell into a breathing fweat. About fivehours afterwards fhe com¬ plained of a great oppreflion, and a violent pain in all her limbs; for which an aperient laxative mixture was given, and which made her part with a quantity of watery matter. Thepain augmenting, andfixingin her fide and bread:, fhe was twice bled, and her blood being then found much inflamed, it was wifhed to repeat the bleedings; but fhe proved to be too weak: however, a blifter was applied to her fide; and other treatment being opportunely given, fhe was entirely recovered in the fpace of a fortnight, the flownefs of which is attri¬ buted to her having been affiidted fix months before with a fever, and conflant lownefs of fpirits, upon account of bad circumftances, I N
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