Goodwyn, Edmund M.D.. The Connexion of Life with Respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the fffects [sic] of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure.. J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, London, England, 1788.

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GOODWYN (Edmund). The Connexion of Life with Respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the fffects [sic] of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure.. London: Printed by T. Spilesbury for J. Johnson, 1788.

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Description: First English edition, [4], xvi, 126pp., two engraved plates (lightly offset), recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco label to spine. First published, 1786, in Latin, as inaugural dissertation under title: Dissertatio medica de morte submersorum. "An expansion of his dissertation of 1786 for which he received the gold medal of the Humane Society. A pioneering, very important work, emphasizing the importance of ventilation in resuscitation."—American Society of Anesthesiologists exhibition, 50. Wellcome III, p. 136; Garrison & Morton, 2028.53.

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Goodwyn Edmund and Dobson Matthew. The Connection of Life with Respiration Bound with a Medical Commentary on Fixed Air. J Johnson, London, 1788.

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Description: Ex library with the usual blemishes. Two items in a single library binding. First item A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air: Particularly I on the Different Methods of Procuring and Administering Fixed Airbook. II On Its Sensible Effects in Health Taken Internally. III On its Effects in Diseases of the Putrid Class. IV On Putrifaction the Effluvium and the Means of Correcting the Putrid Effluvium. V On the Effects of Fixed Air on the Putrifactive Process and on the Putrid Effluvium. VI On the Use of Fixed Air in Cachexies and Phagedenic Ulcers. VII In Some Diseases of the Stomach. VIII In the Stone and Gravel. IX On the Disposition to the Stone in the Cider Counties Compared with Some Other Parts of England. X On the Noxious Effects of Fixed Air by Matthew Dobson with an Appendix on the Use of the Solution of Fixed Alkaline Salts Saturated with Flexible Air in the Stone and Gravel by William Faulkener. Second Edition published by Cadell, London 1785. viii, 174 pp. Errata. Appendix (56 pp). Second item The Connexion of Life With Respiration; Or An Experimental Inquiry Into the Effects of Submersion Strangulation and Several Kinds of Noxious Airs on Living Animals With An Account of the Nature of the Disease They Produce; Its Distinction From Death Itself; and The Most Effectual Means of Cure by Edmund Goodwyn MD published J Johnson, London 1788. xvi, 126 pp. Two plates. The text block is lightly foxed. This book is heavy and will attract postal surcharges.

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Goodwyn, Edmund.. The connexion of life with respiration: or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals, with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; .. London: Printed by T. Spilsbury, Snow-hill, for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1788., 1788.

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Description: Octavo. [iv], xvi, 126pp. []1, A9, B8-I8 (- I8 blank). First edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Upper corner of lower cover damaged. With two plates. Ex Sion College and Stationer's Company libraries. First published, 1786, in Latin, as inaugural dissertation at Edinburgh University under title: Dissertatio medica de morte submersorum.

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