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Film
First aid. Stories.
Books
Resuscitation of the newborn infant : principles and practice / edited by Harold Abramson.
Date: 1960
Videos
Online
Resuscitation of the newborn.
Date: 1972
Books
Adventures in respiration : modes of asphyxiation and methods of resuscitation / by Yandell Henderson.
Henderson, Yandell, 1873-1944.Date: 1938
Pictures
Online
A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.
Date: 5 July 1790Reference: 17921i
Digital Images
Two men possibly resuscitating a drowned woman using a long pipe/kit through which one is blowing into her anus.
Books
Online
Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning.
Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844.Date: [1795?]
Books
Online
They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert.
Lambert, T. S. (Thomas Scott), 1819-1897.Date: 1879
Books
An account of some societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the recovery of drowned persons, and of similar institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna, and Paris; with a collection of authentic cases proving the practicability of extending the benefits of their practice to the recovery of persons visibly dead by sudden stoppages of breath, suffocation, stifling, swooning, convulsions, and other accidents. / By Alexander Johnson, M.D.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]]
Books
Manuel illustré d'instructions dans les méthodes employées par la Sociéte pour le dégagement et le sauvetage des noyes, ainsi que pour rappeler ceux-ci à la vie.
Date: 1932
Journals
Anaesthesiologie und Wiederbelebung.
Books
Online
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, ... To which is subjoined, the proper measures for recovery and relief; ... 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: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Books
Online
The anniversary sermon of the Royal Humane Society : preached at Grosvenor Chapel, on Sunday, April 16, 1799; and at the parish church of Mitcham, on Sunday, June 30, 1799 / By the Rev. Richard Harrison ... An appendix by the Society.
Harrison, Richard, 1762 or 1763-1824.Date: 1799
Archives and manuscripts
Notes on the history of resuscitation (box two)
Date: 20th centuryReference: PP/HGE/H/2
Part of: Dr Hans Georg Epstein (1909-2002)
Archives and manuscripts
Notes on the history of resuscitation (box one)
Date: 20th centuryReference: PP/HGE/H/1
Part of: Dr Hans Georg Epstein (1909-2002)
Books
Online
An experimental inquiry into the proximate cause of death from suspended respiration in drowning and hanging, with the means of resuscitation : submitted as an inaugural essay to the public examination of the trustees and professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the University of the State of New-York, Samuel Bard, M.D. president, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 3d of May, 1814 / by Ansel W. Ives, honorary member of the American Aesculapian Society.
Ives, Ansel W. (Ansel Wilmot), 1787-1838.Date: 1814
Videos
Treatment of cardiac arrest.
Date: 1958
Books
Vosstanovlenie zhiznennykh funktsii organizma, nakhod︠︡iashchegosi︠a︡ v sost︠o︡ianii agonii ili v periode klinicheskoĭ smerti / V.A. Negovskiĭ ; pod redak︠t︡sieĭ V.V. Parina.
Negovskiĭ, V. A. (Vladimir Aleksandrovich)Date: 1943
Film
Treatment of cardiac arrest.
Date: 1958
Videos
Online
Treatment of cardiac arrest.
Date: 1958
Books
Life saving and water safety.
Date: 1969
Videos
Online
Causes of cardiac arrest.
Date: [1958?]
Books
A dissertation on natural and suspended respiration / By Edward Coleman.
Coleman, Edward, 1765-1839.Date: 1802
Books
Online
A short account of a society at Amsterdam instituted in the year 1767 for the recovery of drowned persons; With Observations Shewing the Utility and Advantage that would accrue to Great Britain from a similar Institution Extended To Cases Of Suffocation BY Damps In Mines, Choaking, Strangling, Stifling, And Other Accidents: by Alexander Johnson, M.D.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Books
Online
The discovery of the physiological method of inducing respiration in cases of apparent death from drowning, chloroform, still-birth, noxious gases, etc., etc. / by Henry R. Silvester.
Silvester, Henry R. (Henry Robert), 1829-1908.Date: 1863

Works search

First aid. Stories.

Resuscitation of the newborn infant : principles and practice / edited by Harold Abramson.

Resuscitation of the newborn.

Adventures in respiration : modes of asphyxiation and methods of resuscitation / by Yandell Henderson.

A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.

Two men possibly resuscitating a drowned woman using a long pipe/kit through which one is blowing into her anus.

Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning.

They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert.

Manuel illustré d'instructions dans les méthodes employées par la Sociéte pour le dégagement et le sauvetage des noyes, ainsi que pour rappeler ceux-ci à la vie.

Anaesthesiologie und Wiederbelebung.

The anniversary sermon of the Royal Humane Society : preached at Grosvenor Chapel, on Sunday, April 16, 1799; and at the parish church of Mitcham, on Sunday, June 30, 1799 / By the Rev. Richard Harrison ... An appendix by the Society.

Notes on the history of resuscitation (box two)

Notes on the history of resuscitation (box one)

Treatment of cardiac arrest.

Vosstanovlenie zhiznennykh funktsii organizma, nakhod︠︡iashchegosi︠a︡ v sost︠o︡ianii agonii ili v periode klinicheskoĭ smerti / V.A. Negovskiĭ ; pod redak︠t︡sieĭ V.V. Parina.

Treatment of cardiac arrest.

Treatment of cardiac arrest.

Life saving and water safety.

Causes of cardiac arrest.

A dissertation on natural and suspended respiration / By Edward Coleman.

The discovery of the physiological method of inducing respiration in cases of apparent death from drowning, chloroform, still-birth, noxious gases, etc., etc. / by Henry R. Silvester.