M0012856: Tobacco clyster used to resuscitate drowned persons

Date:
March 1953
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/114/88
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M0012856: Tobacco clyster used to resuscitate drowned persons. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Tobacco clyster used to resuscitate drowned persons

Description

Photograph of an illustration depicting a tobacco clyster used to resuscitate drowned persons, reproduced from Jackson, Rowland: A physical dissertation on drowning: in which submersion, commonly call'd drowning, is shewn to be a long time consistent with the continuance of life ... To which is subjoined, the proper measures for recovery and relief ... With an appendix, containing some methods for the recovery of those who hang themselves, and of children supposed to be born dead, London: J. Robinson, 1746.

Publication/Creation

March 1953

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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    EPB/P/30087/1
  • Copy 2

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    EPB/P/30087/2
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    EPB/T/225
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    EPB/T/225.9

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