Directions for recovering persons, who are supposed to be dead, from drowning, : also, for preventing and curing the disorders produced by drinking cold water, or other cold liquors, and by the action of noxious vapours, lightning, and excessive heat and cold, upon the human body. Published by order of the Humane Society of Philadelphia
- Corporate Author:
- Humane Society of Philadelphia
- Published:
- Philadelphia [Pa.] : Printed by Joseph James, [1789]
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 51 x 44 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813, Jones, John, 1729-1791, and James, Joseph, 1754 or 1755-1830
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Attributed to Benjamin Rush by Bristol, who supplies the date of publication.
Signed: John Jones, president; [and eleven others]. Managers of the Humane Society.
In this issue, column 1 line 4 reads: the water, it must be conveyed, with; column 1 line 7 reads: or placing it across a log on its belly.
Text printed in four columns divided by ornamental rules; printed area measures 46.2 x 38.1 cm.
Not in: Evans; Bristol; Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints.
Historical Society broadside housed at HSP.
NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
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