An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the medal.

  • Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.
Date:
1788
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Credit: An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the medal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *36 ] degree eflabliflied, we fliall frequently be called upon to relieve various fymptoms which arife from congeftion, either in the head or thorax; fuch as, pain and heavi- nefs in the head, ftupidity, coma, deli- rium, difficulty in breathing, pain in the bread:, &c. &c. Whatever objection may be urged againd; bleeding in the early ffiage of thefe accidents, no one will, I believe, oppofe it in this; for it is certain no remedy can anfwer fo fpeedily and ef- fectually i and it may require to be fre- quently repeated before the effeCt is pro- duced. The part from whence the blood is to be drawn, is in thefe cafes by no means a matter of indifference. If it is taken from the arm, the diftention of the brain, for which principally this ope- mtion is performed, will fcarcely be at all ledened on account of the flagnation of the blood, and the diftance from the part affected ^ added to which, blood can fel- dom be procured in flifficient quantity frorrt