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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    If any difficulty fhould arife in diftend- ing the lungs, it muft proceed either from water in the windpipe, or a contraction or adhefion of the epiglottis. We have al- ready pointed out the method of difcover- ing when the firft circumftance occurs ; and when the latter is the cafe, we fhall generally remedy the inconvenience by bringing the tongue forwards, which, be- ing connected to the epiglottis by inelaftic ligaments, muft of courfe be elevated. Should any further impediment however occur, the crocked tube, bent like a male catheter, recommended by Dr. Monro, and mentioned by Mr. Portal, Mr. le Cat, and others, fhould be introduced in- to the glottis, through the mouth or one noftril; the end ffiouid be connected to a blow-pipe, or, what will be more con- venient, the pipe for the nofe belonging to the elaftic tube may be removed, and this inftrument fcrewed in its place, ac- cording to the plan mentioned in the de- fcription of a pocket cafe of inftruments for