An enquiry into the causes of suspended animation from drowning : with the means of restoring life. by David Hosack, M.D.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1792
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Credit: An enquiry into the causes of suspended animation from drowning : with the means of restoring life. by David Hosack, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Without particularly enumerating the conferences of thefe practices, fuffice it to remark, that there is fcarcely a Jingle infiance known of a recovery after thefe meafures have been ufed. To remove this unhappy prejudice, however, as alfo the more generally to diffufe among our citizens a knowledge of the moft effectual means of recovery, nothing can more immediately con- tribute than the eftablifhment of a fociety for this exprefs purpofe, which I am happy to add is now in agitation, and which, I hope, will meet with the countenance of the citizens at large.