A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject to elucidate the approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
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A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject to elucidate the approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bath : Printed by S. Hazard, and sold by Rivingtons (etc. London), 1795.

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12 unnumbered pages, xviii, 189 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : 3 plates (including port.) : frontispiece ; (8vo)

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This essay was awarded the Prize Medal of the Royal Humane Society, Sept. 17, 1794. (Cf. p. [6]) The oration delivered by Dr. J. C. Lettsom on presentation of the medal, and Fothergill's reply are prefixed to this work (p. [i]-xi)

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