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 ...

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45499.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lifesaving--Massachusetts--Societies, etc.

Lifesaving.

Charities.

Massachusetts.

Charities--Massachusetts.

Drowning--Resuscitation.

Drowning.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Printed by Adams and Nourse?], [1789]

Notes:

Application, in the form of a circular letter, "made to some principal gentlemen ... requesting their influence ... to encourage and promote" the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Possibly printed by Adams and Nourse, who had previously published case histories for the Humane Society in issues of their Independent chronicle.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45499).

Cited in:

Bristol B6967

Shipton & Mooney 45499

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2541

OCLC:

55829577