The popular compendium of anatomy, or, A concise and clear description of the human body : with the physiology, or natural history, the various actions and functions of its different organs and parts. Containing also an article on suspended animation, with the proper means to be used for the recovery of drowned persons / by William Burke, surgeon.

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1804
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The popular compendium of anatomy, or, A concise and clear description of the human body : with the physiology, or natural history, the various actions and functions of its different organs and parts. Containing also an article on suspended animation, with the proper means to be used for the recovery of drowned persons / by William Burke, surgeon. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for S. Highley (successor to the late Mr. John Murray) and J. Badcock, 1804 ([London] : T. Gillet.)

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xii, 261 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 18 cm (12mo)

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: M. Phelps Note: Binding: Modern quarter calf. Plate 3 bound as frontispiece

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