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  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching by S. Castiglione, 1645.
  • The Virgin Mary carried to the grave by the apostles. Etching.
  • A man thought to be dead arising from a table in a laboratory and frightening the proprietor. Drawing.
  • 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.
  • 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].
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Engraving by J. Rogers after D.A.M. Raffet.
  • 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].
  • 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].
  • The beginning of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the apostles. Etching.
  • The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).
  • 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].
  • The widow's son, empty-eyed, returns to life at the prayer of Elijah. Coloured mezzotint by V. Green, 1799, after B. West.
  • Christ raises Jairus's 12 year old daughter. Wood engraving.
  • Christ raises Jairus' daughter. Woodcut.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Christ raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. Engraving by J. Matham after F. Zuccaro.
  • Christ raises Jairus' daughter. Etching by J. Kirk after C. de Lafosse.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • Christ appearing to the apostle Thomas, who touches his stigmata. Engraving by G. Huret, 1664, after himself.
  • 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].
  • 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].
  • Christ raises Jairus' daughter. Etching by J.J. Sartor.
  • Elijah prays for life to be restored to the widow's son. Line engraving by O. Gatti, 1625, after Il Pordenone.
  • The death of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the apostles. Etching by or after J. Callot.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Walker after J-B. Jouvenet.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching by R.W. Sievier, 1830, after S. del Piombo.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving, c. 17th century.
  • The Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Chromotypograph.