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First aid in illness and injury - Early works to 1800
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Popular observations on apparent death from drowning, suffocation, &c. With an account of the means to be employed for recovery. Drawn up at the desire of the Northamptonshire Preservative Society: by James Curry, M.D. Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and Physician to the Northampton Hospital.
Curry, James.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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Observations on apparent death from drowning, suffocation, &c. With an account of the means to be employed for recovery. Drawn up at the desire of the Northamptonshire preservative society: By James Curry, M.D. member of the Royal medical society of Edinburgh, and physician at Kettering.
Curry, James.Date: 1792- Books
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Directions for an extension of the practice of recovering persons apparently dead: taken from the instructions at large, published by Alexander Johnson, M.D. (Introducer of the practice in England,) and confirmed by reports received from abroad: Tending to shew, that more benefit will arise to the nations, from extending the knowledge of the original treatment here set forth, to be exercised generally by men of all denominations, than from its being restrained to the efforts of a comparatively small number of medical assistants and country practitioners, recommended by the several humane socienties in this kingdom; and who, professionally occupied, cannot be at hand to give that instantaneous assistance upon which the hope of success is founded, at that critical moment when fleeting life exists but like a spark.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: 1785?]- Books
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Helps for suddain accidents endangering life : By which those that liue farre from physitions or chirurgions may happily preserue the life of a poore friend or neighbour, till such a man may be had to perfect the cure. Collected out of the best authours for the generall good, by Stephen Bradvvell. physition.
Bradwell, StephenDate: 1633- Books
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A lecture, containing plain descriptions of the situation of the large blood-vessels of the extremities; the instrument called tourniquet; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries, in cases of dangerous effusions of blood from wounds, &c. delivered to the scholars of the Maritime School, at Chelsea;first printed for their Use; And now published for general Benefit; By William Blizard, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Surgeon to the London Hospital, and the Honourable Artillery-Company; And Lecturer in Anatomy, and Surgery.
Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]