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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    IT is fiirely unneceflary to remark, that every one who prefumes to take upon liimfelf the important office of directing the remedies that are to be ufed for the recovery of the apparently dead, fhould be provided with every inftrument that can be neceffiary to fecond his intentions: this part of our profeffion is, under the mod: favourable circumftances, fufficiently befet with difficulties/and it is eafy to conceive wffiat m.uft be the event in thofe cafes, where any of the more effential remedies are omitted. I cannot in juftice conclude without mentioning, that Mr. Savigny, the very ingenious and celebrated inftrument-ma- ker, has fpared neither time, attention, or expence, in rendering this cafe as complete as its nature will permit. FINIS.