Volume 1

Reports of the Humane Society, instituted in the year 1774, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. For the year M.DCC.LXXVI.

  • Royal Humane Society (London, England)
Date:
1777]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Reports of the Humane Society, instituted in the year 1774, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. For the year M.DCC.LXXVI. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION, How pleafing is the tafk to take up the pun in thefe our periodical publications, in order to re¬ late the particulars of our fuccefs, compared with that of forming precarious plans, and attempting to awaken the attention, or claim *he aid of the p.ublick, to enable us to put them into execution 1 ' With what fatisfadfion do we refledt that we have already made fuch progrefs in the prefervation of life, and have received fuch encouragements in the profecution of our dehgns, that little now remains but to become faithful hiftorians of interefting The impediments to our fir ft eftablifhment, it is true, were great and very difeouraging -y and with a degree of reludtance, which nothing but an ar¬ dent defire to alleviate the diftrefies of mankind could overcome, did we yenture to combat the popular prejudices, and propofe a Scheme, which y e were well apprized would not only expofe us to the ridicule, of little minds, but to the objedtions of men eminent for their fenfe and learning. Yet A on