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Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.
Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832Date: 1787
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Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.
Date: 1955
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On some points of interest in connexion with a case of drowning in which no water was found in the stomach / by Keith Norman Macdonald.
Macdonald, Keith Norman, 1834-1913.Date: 1882
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To the Churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of ... in the county aforesaid : Whereas, sworn evidence has been given before me this day of the finding of the body of ... in the ... by ... I hereby certify that he is entitled to the sum of five shillings for the finding of such body ... Coroner for.
Date: 1890
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The arms of a drowning person reaching out of a body of water / Peter Rossiter.
Rossiter, Peter, active approximately 1986.Date: 27.2.86 [27 February 1986]Reference: 3025149i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Reference: 43062i
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First report of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea : with minutes of evidence and appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea.Date: 1885
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Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.
Date: [1833?]
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phænomenis et natura morbi ex submersione oriundi : quam, ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit / Thomas Archibald Murray, Anglus.
Murray, T. A. (Thomas Archibald), -1802.Date: 1796
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The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 15708i
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Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration in the human subject especially in cases of drowning / by E. A. Shafer.
Sharpey-Schäfer, E. A. (Edward Albert), Sir, 1850-1935.Date: 1904
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Historie en gedenkschriften van de maatschappy : tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerecht binnen Amsterdam MDCCLXVII.
Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen.Date: MDCCLXXX [1780]
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Leander drowning while swimming across the Hellespont towards the house of Hero. Engraving after D. Vinckboons.
Vinckeboons, David, 1576-1629.Reference: 2661856i
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A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Watercolour by R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Reference: 17928i
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Drowning / Peter Rossiter.
Rossiter, Peter, active approximately 1986.Date: 24.6.86 [24 June 1986]Reference: 3025685i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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A flood, with a person drowning. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Jan. 69 [January 1969]Reference: 2897396i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of ... 189.
Date: 1890
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Opere del Dr. Giulio Ceradini.
Ceradini, Giulio, 1844-1894.Date: 1906
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Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.
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Left, an anguished face with crosses, hooks and diagonals; right, the hands of a drowning person, with verticals and diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: May 77 [May 1977]Reference: 2907951i
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Dissertatio de submersis ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus M'Donnell, Hibernus.
McDonnell, James, 1763-1845.Date: 1784
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Exposure at sea / E.C.B. Lee, K. Lee.
Lee, E. C. B. (Eric Cuthbert Bernard)Date: [1968?]
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Tables relating to 1. Wrecks of and casualties to British ships, and lives lost thereby, 2. Wrecks of and casualties to British ships, exclusive of fishing vessels, registered in the United Kingdom, and lives lost thereby, in each of the twelve years 1875 to 1886, both years inclusive.
Date: 1888
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Life saving and water safety.
Date: 1969
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The anniversary sermon of the Royal Humane Society : preached at Grosvenor Chapel, on Sunday, April 16, 1799; and at the parish church of Mitcham, on Sunday, June 30, 1799 / By the Rev. Richard Harrison ... An appendix by the Society.
Harrison, Richard, 1762 or 1763-1824.Date: 1799

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Illustrated handbook of instruction in the Society's methods of release from and rescue of the drowning : and of resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

On some points of interest in connexion with a case of drowning in which no water was found in the stomach / by Keith Norman Macdonald.

The arms of a drowning person reaching out of a body of water / Peter Rossiter.

A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.

First report of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea : with minutes of evidence and appendix.

Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phænomenis et natura morbi ex submersione oriundi : quam, ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit / Thomas Archibald Murray, Anglus.

The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.

Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration in the human subject especially in cases of drowning / by E. A. Shafer.

Historie en gedenkschriften van de maatschappy : tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerecht binnen Amsterdam MDCCLXVII.

Leander drowning while swimming across the Hellespont towards the house of Hero. Engraving after D. Vinckboons.

A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Watercolour by R. Smirke.

Drowning / Peter Rossiter.

A flood, with a person drowning. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.

Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of ... 189.

Opere del Dr. Giulio Ceradini.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

Left, an anguished face with crosses, hooks and diagonals; right, the hands of a drowning person, with verticals and diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.

Dissertatio de submersis ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus M'Donnell, Hibernus.

Exposure at sea / E.C.B. Lee, K. Lee.

Tables relating to 1. Wrecks of and casualties to British ships, and lives lost thereby, 2. Wrecks of and casualties to British ships, exclusive of fishing vessels, registered in the United Kingdom, and lives lost thereby, in each of the twelve years 1875 to 1886, both years inclusive.

Life saving and water safety.

The anniversary sermon of the Royal Humane Society : preached at Grosvenor Chapel, on Sunday, April 16, 1799; and at the parish church of Mitcham, on Sunday, June 30, 1799 / By the Rev. Richard Harrison ... An appendix by the Society.