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Medallion of St. George and the Dragon. Worn by sailors to prevent drowning. Sold near London Docks.
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A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Watercolour by R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Reference: 17930i- Pictures
A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Date: 26 March 1787Reference: 545984i- Books
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Sad and deplorable news from Oxford-sheir & Bark-sheir : Being a lamentable and true relation of the drowning of about sixty persons, men, women and children, in the lock, near Goring in Oxford sheir; as they were passing by water, from Goring Feast, to Stately in Barksheir. Readers, this story is both strange and true, and for your good (presented unto you:) be careful of your life, all sins to fly, lest you by death be taken suddenly. When he is sent, on you arrest to make, no fees nor bail, can purchase your escape.
Date: 1674- Books
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An enquiry into the causes of suspended animation from drowning : with the means of restoring life. by David Hosack, M.D.
Hosack, David, 1769-1835.Date: 1792- Books
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The resuscitation of the apparently drowned / by R.L. Bowles.
Bowles, Robert L. (Robert Leamon), 1834-1913.Date: 1890- Books
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A letter to Lord Cathcart, President of the Board of Police in Scotland : concerning the recovery of persons drowned, and seemingly dead / by William Cullen, First Physician to His Majesty, and professor of the practice of physic in the University of Edinburgh ; to which is added, An extract from the Journals of the Board of Police, containing a paper presented by Lord Cathcart, to that honourable board, on the same subject.
Cullen, William, 1710-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]- Books
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Annual report, 1803 / By W. Hawes.
Royal Humane Society (London, England)Date: [1803]- Books
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Försök till en historisk afhandling om räddnings-anstalterne für drunknade, jemte anderättelse om säkraste medlen hwarigenom de kunna återställas til lif / af J. D. Herholdt och C. G. Rafn ; Öfwersättning af A. Fahlman.
Herholdt, Johan Daniel, 1764-1836.Date: 1805- Books
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Annual report of the Royal Humane Society, for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned. 1812.
Royal Humane Society (London, England)Date: 1812- Books
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Reports of the Humane Society : Instituted in the year 1774, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. For the years M.DCC.LXXXV and M.DCC.LXXXVI.
Royal Humane Society (London, England)Date: [1787?]- Books
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A discourse delivered in the church in Brattle Street, in Boston, Tuesday, June 11th, 1799, before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts / by Isaac Hurd, A.M. ; Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Hurd, Isaac, 1756-1844.Date: 1799- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the effects of tobacco fumes, on the system : and their use in cases of suspended animation, from submersion / by Daniel Legare.
Legare, Daniel, 1781-1854.Date: 1805- Books
Abstracts of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of the United Kingdom from the 1st July 1892 to the 30th June 1893 : also of the returns made to the Board of trade during the year 1892-93 of shipping casualties which occurred to British vessels elsewhere than on the coasts of the United Kingdom, and to foreign vessels on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of British possessions abroad.
Date: 1894- Books
Reports of the Humane Society : instituted in the year 1774, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. For the years 1783 and 1784.
Royal Humane Society (London, England)Date: [1785?]- Books
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A funeral elegy, occasioned by the tragedy, at Salem, near Boston, on Thursday afternoon the seventeenth of June, 1773; at which time the 10 following persons, seven women and three men were drowned, having been out on a party of pleasure ...
Friend to the deceased.Date: 1773]- Books
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By authority, new-invented Cork Jacket, for prevention of drowning. The great advantage these jackets have over every thing of the kind ever attempted before, has occasioned them to be greatly approved and strongly recommended, by a number of gentlemen of the navy, as an article that no person should go to sea without, who wishes for their preservarion: they have this very great superiority over all others, that they may be worn with the greatest ease at sea, for any length of time, without incommonding the wearer the least in his business in the ship; and will be found of the greatest utility when a ship is lost near ship is lost near shore, as any person in them, though they cannot swim, may convey themselves safe to land ...
Bell's Cork-jacket Warehouse (London, England)Date: [1790?]- Books
De historische ontwikkeling van de tabaksrook-klisteer als middel tot het opwekken der levensgeesten bij schijndoode drenkelingen / R.A. Gorter.
Gorter, R. A.Date: [1940?]- Books
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De l'emploi du spéculum laryngien dans le traitement de l'asphyxie par submersion, etc. / par A. de Labordette.
Labordette, A. de.Date: 1868- Pictures
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A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Watercolour by R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Reference: 17928i- Books
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Aperçu historique au sujet de la Société pour secourir les noyés, instituée a Amsterdam / [J.A. Kool] ; traduit du Hollandais.
Kool, Jan Adrian.Date: 1855- Books
Geschiedkundige beschouwing van de Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen, te Amsterdam.
Kool, Jan Adrian.Date: 1854- Books
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The history of the life and death of Pontius Pilate, the Roman president, who sentenced our blessed Lord and Saviour to be crucified. Likewise an account of the most memorable transactions, which happen'd while he was governour of Jerusalem: As also, a relation of his untimely end, by drowning himself in a lake near Lucerna in Switzerland, where he yearly appears in his judges habit; but whatever man or woman happens to see him, dies within a year; and such is the property of this lake wherein Pilate drown'd himself, that if any one cast a stone into it, it overflows the country with great damage for several miles, whereupon laws are made against throwing any thing into this lake upon pain of death, and divers that have transgressed them, have been executed for the same.
Date: [1720?]- Pictures
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Bill Sikes attempting to drown his dog in a pond near Hatfield, Herts. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1838.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1893]Reference: 42247i- Books
Verslag omtrent de Maatschappij tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerigt in den jare 1767 te Amsterdam : 1854-1862 / door J.A. Kool.
Kool, Janus Adrianus, 1794-1880.Date: 1862