Description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead; as recommended ... by Mr. Charles Kite ... and approved by the London Humane Society / [Made] By John Savigny. [Written by C. Kite. Repr. from appendix to his 'Essay on the recovery of the apparently dead', 1788].

  • Savigny, J. (John)
Date:
1789
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Credit: Description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead; as recommended ... by Mr. Charles Kite ... and approved by the London Humane Society / [Made] By John Savigny. [Written by C. Kite. Repr. from appendix to his 'Essay on the recovery of the apparently dead', 1788]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Having at length completed an ajfemblage of injiruments for the recovery of perfons appa- rently dead\ to the approbation, and, in every refpedl, according to the intentions of the very Ingenious author of an effay on the fubjecl; it only now remains to give an account of their conftruElion, ufes, and importance. fhis has been fully done in the Appendix of the publica- tion alluded to ; but, as every gentleman may not be in pojfejfton of it, I avail myfelf of the au¬ thor s permifion (who has alfo allowed me the life of the plates) to copy it, for the inform¬ ation of thofe whom I may have the honour to fupply with the implements necejfary to carry into ejfetl the learned and humane theory of the whole