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 IO' ] X ' ^ ill Great Britain, with fome Improvement upon thofe adopted in the neighbouring nations, in order to which he has already taken fome fteps, fhall meet with general countenance and approbation. The following Cafes, are felected from the Society s Accoun t of the Succefs of its un¬ dertaking) and plainly demonfrate the truth of the foregoing Remarks, and aff ord the moft fatisfaCiory evidence that all the Ends propofed by the Infitution have been obtained, except indeed what appears by the Cafes t he mfelves, that the Society s Inf ractions have been too often neglected. In ah thefe Cafes the Premium of ered by the Society has been obtained, previous to which proof mufl be made that the Patient bad no fign of life when brought on fore i' ; and the utmofl care is always taken to ficure a true and faithful account of the circumfances