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 approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
Date:
1795
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Credit: 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 approximate cause and to appretiate [sic] the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / By A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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