Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society. An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned; report of a committee appointed by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1904.

Catalog Record: Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society. An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned; report of a committee appointed by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1904.

Title: An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned; report of a committee appointed by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society.

AccessKey: acrz

Author: Sharpey-Schafer, Edward Albert, Sir, 1850-1935.
Corp. Author: Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.

WLM Call Number: WO 250 Sch14 1904 RB

Accession NO.: 7841

Publisher: London : Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, 1904.

Physical Description: 81 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Drowning.
Subject: Near Drowning.
Subject: Resuscitation – methods.
Subject: Animal Experimentation.

Abstract: This report is comprised two parts, the first discusses physiological
experiments on dogs and the second part details experiments designed to
measure the amounts of inspired and expired air in the lungs induced by
artificial means. This report re-affirms the Silvester Method of
Resuscitation which the Society had recommended for adoption by the
Royal Humane Society in 1862.

General Notes: This report was published as a supplement to Volume 86 of the
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions.

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

General Notes: “Report of a Committee appointed by the Society drawn up by Professor
Schafer, Chairman of the Committee.” [p. 1]