Rules for recovering persons recently drowned: in a letter to the Rev. G. Rogers / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1794
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Credit: Rules for recovering persons recently drowned: in a letter to the Rev. G. Rogers / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the rules laid down, may be the more readily remembered. I need not inform you, that people reiiding in fea-port towns, and thofe fimated near rivers, are more liable to accidents from drowning than, «> s ' CJ others. The laudable endeavours of the Humane Society have Hatched hundreds from the grave 5 and, by their encouragement and proffered re¬ wards, have been the happy means of provoking to philofophical inveftigatioh feveral ingenious men : the labours of fuch have enriched the me¬ dical worlds and their experiments and difcoveriea greatly elucidated the fubjefl of refufcitation. Medical men are now, I hope, in general, pretty- well prepared for applying the do&rines laid down by therm when accidents of the above nature fall in their way. 1 fhall flippofe, that, for the moil part* they are provided with the bell apparatus neceffary bn fuch occafions, and alfo fufficiently expert in their application. The public ought not, how¬ ever, to expedt fuccefs on every occafion, even when the belt means are ufed.—Cafes will occur where life cannot be recalled, and where want of fuccefs does by no means prove want of fkilk—-* This has, and doubtlefs may again take place, even when the fubmerfed body has been but a very fhort time in the water. It is not neceifary to enter into an explanation of this now, though it B 2 could