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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    the freezing point. On this account I am in doubt, whether the volatile alkali, or ardent Ipirits, may not in evaporating generate fo much cold on the furface of the body, as may counteract our inten- tions, and prove prejudicial : and as the fumes of the volatile alkali very much affeCt the eyes of the affiflants, and there- by prevent their doing their duty proper- ly (an objection to which the patent muftard is alfo liable) I am of opinion they fliould be given up in favour of a liniment with flrong fpirit of vitriol and fweet-oil, which, when frefh made, has the property of generating, inftead of di- minifliing heat; or, what I think flili better, a ftrong camphorated oil, which, at the fame time that it is exempt from the above inconveniences, is powerfully Simulating, of a pleafant flavour, and will allow of being ufed a long time without fatiguing the afliSants; a circumSancc which deferves our attention, when the Operation is fometimes required to be per- formed