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  • Popular observations on apparent death from drowning, suffocation, etc., with an account of the means to be employed for recovery / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • A woman lying down receiving a blood transfusion from a blood bag that has apparently not been tested for HIV since it bears the skeletal face of death; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A dissertation on suspended respiration, from drowning, hanging, and suffocation: : in which is recommended a different mode of treatment to any hitherto pointed out. / By Edward Coleman, surgeon.
  • A dissertation on suspended respiration, from drowning, hanging, and suffocation: : in which is recommended a different mode of treatment to any hitherto pointed out. / By Edward Coleman, surgeon.
  • A man thought to be dead arising from a table in a laboratory and frightening the proprietor. Drawing.
  • A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). Coloured aquatint, 1805, after a drawing by Henry Wigstead, 1784.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have retun'd to life ... with proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • The risen Christ appears as a ghost to the apostles. Lithograph, 1835, after G. Huret, 1664.