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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].
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760Date: 1748- Books
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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].
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760Date: 1746- Books
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Traité des signes de la mort et des moyens de prévenir les enterrements prématurés.
Bouchut, E. (Eugène), 1818-1891.Date: 1849- Books
An essay on suspended animation / by S. Colhoun.
Colhoun, Samuel, 1787-1841.Date: 1823- Books
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An essay on vital suspension: Being an attempt to investigate and to ascertain those diseases, in which the principles of life are apparently extinguished. By a Medical Practitioner.
Medical Practitioner.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
Scheintod und Todesangst : Äusserungsformen der Angst in ihren geschichtlichen Wandlungen (17.-20. Jahrhundert) / Ingrid Stoessel.
Stoessel, Ingrid.Date: 1983- Books
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A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an Attempt to concentrate Into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of Science, Respecting that Interesting Though Mysterious Subject. To Elucidate The Proximate Cause, To Appretiate The Present Remedies, And To Point Out The Best Method Of Restoring Animation. By A. Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Honorary Member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris: Also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c.
Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.Date: 1795- Books
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A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an Attempt to concentrate Into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of Science, Respecting that Interesting Though Mysterious Subject. To Elucidate The Proximate Cause, To Appretiate The Present Remedies, And To Point Out The Best Method Of Restoring Animation. By A. Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Honorary Member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris: Also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c.
Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Premature burial and how it may be prevented : with special reference to trance, catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation / by William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum.
Tebb, William, 1830-1918.Date: 1896- Books
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An address to the public.
Hawes, William, 1736-1808.Date: 1778?]- Books
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An address to the public.
Hawes, William, 1736-1808.Date: 1778]- Books
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A discourse, delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the semi-annual meeting, eleventh of June, 1793. By John Clarke, A.M. A.A.S. Minister of the First Church in Boston. [One line from Luke]
Clarke, John, 1755-1798.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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An enquiry into the causes of suspended animation from drowning; with the means of restoring life. By David Hosack, M.D. [One line in Latin from Baglivi]
Hosack, David, 1769-1835.Date: --1792--- Books
The institution of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: with the rules for regulating said Society, and the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead; with a number of recent cases proving the happy effects therof.
Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Date: 1788- Books
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A discourse relative to the subject of animation, delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their semiannual meeting June 13th, 1797. By John Fleet, Jun. M.D. M.M.S. [One line Latin epigram]
Fleet, John, 1766-1813.Date: 1797- Books
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Recherches mico-lales sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort : les dangers des inhumations pripits / par M. Julia de Fontenelle.
Julia de Fontenelle, M. (Jean-Sastien-Euge), 1790-1842.Date: 1834- Books
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Instruction sur le traitement : des asphyxiés par le gaz méphitiques ; des noyés ; des enfans qui paraissent morts en naissant ; des personnes qui ont été réduites à l'état d'asphyxie par le froid et par le chaud ; de celles qui ont été mordues et par le chaud ; de celles qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés ; de celles qui ont été empoisonnées : avec des observations sur les causes de ces accidens, et sur les signes qui distinguent la mort réele de celle qui n'est qu'apparente.
Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832.Date: 1816- Books
Foetal mortality in the offspring of apparently healthy women / by Mabel F. Potter.
Potter, Mabel F.Date: 1938- Pictures
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The death of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the apostles. Etching by or after J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 21455i- Books
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The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known Laws of the Animal Oeconomy. 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 in their Coffins, in their Graves, under the Hands of the Surgeons, and after they had remain'd apparently dead for a considerable Time in the Water. 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.
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
Shocked : adventures in bringing back the recently dead / David Casarett, MD.
Casarett, David J.Date: 2014- Books
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Relief from accidental death; or, summary directions, in verse, extracted from the instructions at large, published by Alexander Johnson, M.D. ... The whole accompanied by explanatory notes, ... Published, like all former instructions, at the expence of the doctor, ...
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: 1789- Pictures
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The Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Chromotypograph.
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The risen Christ appears as a ghost to the apostles. Lithograph, 1835, after G. Huret, 1664.
Huret, Grégoire, 1606-1670.Date: September 1835Reference: 24659i- Books
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A physical dissertation on drowning: in which submersion, commonly call'd drowning, is shewn to be a long time consistent with the continuance of life, from a variety of unexceptionable tho' surprising facts, related by the most eminent and judicious Authors, and confirm'd by incontestable Evidence; which Facts are reconcil'd and accounted for, from the strictest Laws of the Animal Oeconomy. To which is subjoined, the proper measures for recovery and relief; the Obligations we lie under to practise them are clearly suggested, and strongly enforc'd; intended for the Good of Mankind, by restoring Life to many Persons, who are erroneously supposed to be irretrievably drowned. Recommended particularly, to the Consideration of the Surgeons of the Navy and Army, who have frequent Opportunities of practising the Methods recommended. With an Appendix, containing some Methods for the Recovery of those who hang themselves, and of Children supposed to be born dead. by a physician.
Jackson, Rowland, 1720-1784.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]