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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    / «• \ L 3 5 ] circumjlances of each. Mz/zy of them appear to have been drawn up by illiterate perfons ; therefore fitch idle circumjlances as are nothing to the purpofe are left out i of this Ttr an fat ion. CASE I. AT Amferdam, on the 17th of Sep¬ tember, 1767, an old Woman was taken out of the Rabin $ a deep Canal, in which fhehad lain funk a confiderabletime; and being fuppofed dead, was to be car* ried away to an Hofpital for burial: but Sybrand Tferman, a Skipper of Gouda, who had read the Society’s Advertifement, believing that Tobacco-fmoke might re¬ cover her, made the trial with a lighted pipe he had in his mouth : he put it up her anus, and taking the bowl in his mouth, blew up the fmoke of it, and of another pipe after it, which by degrees fo far recovered her, that fhe was able foon after to be carried home. C 2 CASE r