A Discourse, before the Humane Society, in Boston: delivered on the second Tuesday of June, 1787

by John Lathrop

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3 -34, xi, 1 pp. Lacks the half title. 8vo. Disbound. Foxed. Evans 20450; ESTC W20141; Austin 1125. Item #325676 The Appendix includes Methods of Treatment to be used with persons apparently dead from drowning , as well as a list of members including several important early Massachusetts physicians John Warren, Thomas Bulfinch, etc. . Founded at the end of the 18th century, Humane Societies endeavored to promote the resuscitation of drowning

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