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Goodwyn (Edmund)

The Connexion of Life with Respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the fffects [sic] of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure.

London: Printed by T. Spilesbury, for J. Johnson, 1788.,

368.76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Author
Goodwyn (Edmund)
Publishers
London: Printed by T. Spilesbury, for J. Johnson, 1788.
Keyword
MEDICINE DROWNING SUFFOCATION APPARENT DEATH RESUSCITATION

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First English edition, 8vo (204 x 125 mm), [4], xvi, 126pp., two engraved plates (lightly offset), two faint stamps to title page, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco label to spine. First published, 1786, in Latin, as inaugural dissertation under title: Dissertatio medica de morte submersorum. ìAn expansion of his dissertation of 1786 for which he received the gold medal of the Humane Society. A pioneering, very important work, emphasizing the importance of ventilation in resuscitation.îóAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists exhibition, 50. Provenance: Formerly in the Birmingham General Hospital Library with their small neat faint stamp. Wellcome III, p. 136; Garrison & Morton, 2028.53.
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