Volume 1

An account of some societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the recovery of drowned persons, and of similar institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna, and Paris; with a collection of authentic cases proving the practicability of extending the benefits of their practice to the recovery of persons visibly dead by sudden stoppages of breath, suffocation, stifling, swooning, convulsions, and other accidents. / By Alexander Johnson, M.D.

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

Credit: An account of some societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the recovery of drowned persons, and of similar institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna, and Paris; with a collection of authentic cases proving the practicability of extending the benefits of their practice to the recovery of persons visibly dead by sudden stoppages of breath, suffocation, stifling, swooning, convulsions, and other accidents. / By Alexander Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ t 8 ] The feverah Cafes publifhed and de- fcribed in the Memoirs of the Dutch Society, fufficiently prove the advantages arifing from an obfervance of the Rules of that dnftitution. It appears from thofe Cafes, that perfons of all ages, from two years old to feventy-two, have been re¬ covered, though apparently dead when brought on {bore ; that many perfons have been reftored, who have been im- merfed from fifteen minutes to an hour and a half; and in fuch inftances as nothing lefs than the moil indifputable teftimony would render credible. It is found by ex^- perience, that relief may be given, not only in drowning, where it has been ufual to defpair of it; but in other cafes, fuch as Suffocation by Sulphurous Vapours*; in cafes of Strangling, Stifling, and in many apparent deaths by Cold, Hunger, and other caufes. * By an order of the Queen of Hungary, perfons fuffo- cated by Damps in her Mines, are treated in a particular manner, according to Inftru&ions, and have been recovered^ From /