Life-preserving manual, : comprising all the means most proper to be instantly adopted, ... with instructions and cautions calculated to prevent the occurrence of the most frequent and fatal accidents. / By S.G. Wilks, M.D.

  • Wilks, S. G.
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Life-preserving manual, : comprising all the means most proper to be instantly adopted, ... with instructions and cautions calculated to prevent the occurrence of the most frequent and fatal accidents. / By S.G. Wilks, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. IN preparing this little work for the press, the author has been actuated by motives on which he can reflect with satisfaction. During a long series of melancholy atten- dance on human misery, he has had so many occasions to witness and deplore the fatal con- sequences of the general want of information on the subject of which he treats, that he is convinced, he cannot more essentially serve the cause of humanity than by doing all in his power to supply this deficiency. A3