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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    can never expedt a recovery (unlefs the re- mains of life are very great indeed) even if the treatment be in every other refpedt unexceptionable : and with them, I am much difpofed to believe, that the greater number of thofe who are recoverable, will be brought to life. The various other me- thods therefore, however highly extolled, are to be confide red only in a fecondary view, and confequently fhould by no means interfere with their application. It is matter of material confequence, and ex- tremely fortunate, that the greater num- ber of them, indeed the whole, except the injedtions into the ftomach, are of fuch a nature, that they may be employed at the fame time, without cladiing, or oppoling each other’s effedls It ♦ When I have eledtrified the body, all the other operations have been fufpended, left the affiftants fliould receive the (hock, inftead of the patient; which may very readily happen, as the living body is a much better con- dudlor of the eledfric fluid than the dead: a very Ample contrivance will prevent the occurrence of this circiim- ftance.