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 / By a physician [i.e. Rowland Jackson].

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Photograph of an illustration depicting a tobacco clyster used to resuscitate drowned persons, reproduced from Jackson, Rowland: <i>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</i>, London: J. Robinson, 1746.

M0012856: Tobacco clyster used to resuscitate drowned persons

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