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  • Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.

    • Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832.
    Date
    1787
    • Ephemera
    • Online
  • Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

    • Royal Life Saving Society (Great Britain)
    Date
    1955
    • Books
  • On some points of interest in connexion with a case of drowning in which no water was found in the stomach / by Keith Norman Macdonald.

    • Macdonald, Keith Norman, 1834-
    Date
    1882
    • Books
  • To the Churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of ... in the county aforesaid : Whereas, sworn evidence has been given before me this day of the finding of the body of ... in the ... by ... I hereby certify that he is entitled to the sum of five shillings for the finding of such body ... Coroner for.

    Date
    1890
    • Ephemera
  • The arms of a drowning person reaching out of a body of water / Peter Rossiter.

    • Rossiter, Peter, active approximately 1986.
    Date
    27.2.86 [27 February 1986]
    Reference
    3025149i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
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  • A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.

    • Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.
    Reference
    43062i
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  • First report of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea : with minutes of evidence and appendix.

    • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea.
    Date
    1885
    • Books
  • Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.

    • Birt, T.
    Date
    [1833?]
    • Ephemera
  • Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phænomenis et natura morbi ex submersione oriundi : quam, ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit / Thomas Archibald Murray, Anglus.

    • Murray, T. A. (Thomas Archibald), -1802.
    Date
    1796
    • Books
    • Online
  • Women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.

    • Truchy, L., 1731-1764.
    Reference
    15708i
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