Boston, July 21, 1789. Sir, It being now considered as an established truth ... that marks of apparent death may subsist without any necessary implication of an absolute extinction of the animating principle; a number of gentlemen in the town of Boston ... set on foot a society whose principal object was to disseminate the knowledge of the means proper to be used for the restoration of persons apparently dead from drowning or other causes .

Boston, July 21, 1789. Sir, It being now considered as an established truth ... that marks of apparent death may subsist without any necessary implication of an absolute extinction of the animating principle; a number of gentlemen in the town of Boston ... set on foot a society whose principal object was to disseminate the knowledge of the means proper to be used for the restoration of persons apparently dead from drowning or other causes .

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Corporate Author: Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Boston : Printed by Adams and Nourse?, 1789]
[Boston] : [Printed by Adams and Nourse?], [1789]
Series:Early American imprints no. 45499.
Early American imprints no. 45499.
Subjects:
Charities > Massachusetts
Drowning > Resuscitation
Lifesaving > Societies, etc > Massachusetts.
Lifesaving > Massachusetts > Societies, etc
Charities
Lifesaving
Massachusetts
Imprint 1789

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