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Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.
Antoine PortalDate: 1787
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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.
Massachusetts Humane SocietyDate: 1788
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Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.
Date: 1955
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On some points of interest in connexion with a case of drowning in which no water was found in the stomach / by Keith Norman Macdonald.
Macdonald, Keith Norman, 1834-1913Date: 1882
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To the Churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of ... in the county aforesaid : Whereas, sworn evidence has been given before me this day of the finding of the body of ... in the ... by ... I hereby certify that he is entitled to the sum of five shillings for the finding of such body ... Coroner for.
Date: 1890
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A pair of pink hands emerging from a brown concentric circles
Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990Date: c.1955-1977Reference: 2885157i
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.
Thomas AllomReference: 43062i
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First report of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea : with minutes of evidence and appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Loss of Life at SeaDate: 1885
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Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.
Date: [1833?]
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phænomenis et natura morbi ex submersione oriundi : quam, ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit / Thomas Archibald Murray, Anglus.
Thomas Archibald MurrayDate: 1796
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"Fear of the sea"
Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990Date: March 1969Reference: 2868048i
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 15708i
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A drowning woman throwing up her arms
Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990Date: 19 June 1958Reference: 2871567i
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration in the human subject especially in cases of drowning / by E. A. Shafer.
Edward Albert Sharpey-SchäferDate: 1904
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Historie en gedenkschriften van de maatschappy : tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerecht binnen Amsterdam MDCCLXVII.
Maatschappij tot Redding van DrenkelingenDate: MDCCLXXX [1780]
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Leander drowning while swimming across the Hellespont towards the house of Hero. Engraving after D. Vinckboons.
David VinckboonsReference: 2661856i
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Handbook of artificial respiration.
Date: 1963
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A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Watercolour by R. Smirke.
Robert SmirkeReference: 17928i
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Sad and deplorable news from Oxford-sheir & Bark-sheir : Being a lamentable and true relation of the drowning of about sixty persons, men, women and children, in the lock, near Goring in Oxford sheir; as they were passing by water, from Goring Feast, to Stately in Barksheir. Readers, this story is both strange and true, and for your good (presented unto you:) be careful of your life, all sins to fly, lest you by death be taken suddenly. When he is sent, on you arrest to make, no fees nor bail, can purchase your escape.
Date: 1674
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A green hand reaching out from swirling water towards a cave in a mountainous landscape
C, K., active approximately 1947Date: 8 July 1947Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/31
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of ... 189.
Date: 1890
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Opere del Dr. Giulio Ceradini.
Giulio CeradiniDate: 1906
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Sad and lamentable newes from Holland : Being a true relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters, that brake in at the town of Gorkham, in the night-time, near the city of Amsterdam, where many stately houses became bnried [sic] in the violent waves; both men, vvomen and children perishing in the raging billows. Also, the manner how the waters brake in again with great violence, on Munday last about noon, at the two strong sluces of Bonmel and Thieler, where about thirty villages were drowned and not any thing to be seen, but the tops of some few steeples and chimneys, many perishing in the vvaters; some escaping in boats, and the poor infants floating upon the raging vvaves in their swadling-bands and cradles together with the sad and wofull cries and groans of the poor distressed inhabitants; and the ringing of the bells backward, to prevent the perishing of others.
Date: 1663
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Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.
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Dissertatio de submersis ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus M'Donnell, Hibernus.
McDonnell, James, 1763-1845.Date: 1784

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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.

Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

On some points of interest in connexion with a case of drowning in which no water was found in the stomach / by Keith Norman Macdonald.

A pair of pink hands emerging from a brown concentric circles

A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.

First report of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea : with minutes of evidence and appendix.

Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phænomenis et natura morbi ex submersione oriundi : quam, ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit / Thomas Archibald Murray, Anglus.

"Fear of the sea"

The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.

A drowning woman throwing up her arms

Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration in the human subject especially in cases of drowning / by E. A. Shafer.

Historie en gedenkschriften van de maatschappy : tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerecht binnen Amsterdam MDCCLXVII.

Leander drowning while swimming across the Hellespont towards the house of Hero. Engraving after D. Vinckboons.

Handbook of artificial respiration.

A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Watercolour by R. Smirke.

A green hand reaching out from swirling water towards a cave in a mountainous landscape

Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of ... 189.

Opere del Dr. Giulio Ceradini.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

Dissertatio de submersis ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus M'Donnell, Hibernus.