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Asphyxia - Early works to 1800

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    The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the fffects [sic] of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; ... By Edmund Goodwyn, M.D.

    Goodwyn, Edmund, 1756-1829. | Date: 1788
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    Rules for recovering persons recently drowned: in a letter to the Rev. George Rogers, A.M. Rector of Spraughton, in Suffolk.

    Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830. | Date: 1794
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    Sad and lamentable news from Old-Street being a full and true relation of a sad and deplorable accident that happened at a Dyers House in Old-Street : on Sunday the 8th. of this instant March, at night. Where a nurse, and two maid-servants, sitting up late to make merry by themselves, and making a very large fire, all of char-coal, in a close room, they were therewith smothered, and their spirits so suffocated, that they continued there all night; and being found next morning, two of them were stark dead, beyond recovery: the third with much ado, was brought to life again, but remains very weak.

    | Date: 1674
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