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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    whole work. Mr. Kite, in his ejjay, has entered largely into the happy confequences at¬ tendant on eleElricity, as one of the modes of treatment in fome cafes ; and, as the neceffary apparatus could not, in the nature of things, be included in the prefent plan, he has obligingly prefented me with a model, from which I am enabled to fupply gentlemen with a machine, which, while its powers are fully adequate to the def redpurpcfes, is reduced to fo fmall a com- pafs, <21 to render its conveyance from place to place a matter of very trivial inconvenience. I cannot reftfl this opportunity of making public acknowledgments of the obligations I am under to this gentleman for repeated acts of kindnefs, which will ever be remembered with fentiments of lofting refpebrt and efeem. A tribute of gratitude, of a very parti¬ cular and cxtenfive nature, I alfo feel to be here indifpenfably due to another mo ft valuable in¬ dividual