Kite C. An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead; being the essay to which the Humane Society’s medal was adjudged, 1788.

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Catalog Record: Kite C. An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead; being the essay to which the Humane Society’s medal was adjudged, 1788.

Title: An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / by Charles Kite ; being the essay to which the Humane Society’s medal was adjudged ; to which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom’s address on the delivery of the medal.

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Author: Kite, Charles.

WLM Call Number: WO 250 K649 1788 RB

Accession NO.: 7844

Publisher: London : C. Dilly, 1788.

Physical Description: xxvii, 274 : ill., tables, charts ; 22 cm.

Subject: Royal Humane Society.
Subject: Resuscitation – history.
Subject: Resuscitation – methods.
Subject: Death, Apparent.

Abstract: This work by Charles Kite won the silver medal of the Royal Humane
Society in 1787. Kite recommends the inflation of the lungs,
preferably with oxygen, for the resuscitation of the apparently dead
and advocates the use of electric shock.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics June 22, 2010.

General Notes: On pp. [257]-274 ‘Appendix ; containing a description of a pocket case
of instruments [made by J. H. Savigny]’.

General Notes: Includes a final leaf of directions to the binder for placing the
plates.