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A short account of a society at Amsterdam ... for the recovery of drowned persons; with observations showing the ... advantage that would accrue to great Britain from a similar institution extended to cases of suffocation by damps in mines, choaking, etc
Author · 1773
Directions for an extension of the practice of recovering persons apparently dead : taken from the instructions at large
Author · 1785
An account of some societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the recovery of drowned persons, and of similar institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna, and Paris; with a collection of authentic cases proving the practicability of extending the benefits of their practice to the recovery of persons visibly dead by sudden stoppages of breath, suffocation, stifling, swooning, convulsions, and other accidents.
Author · 1773