Author: Walter Whiter
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Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781332236930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Dissertation on the Disorder of Death: Or That State of the Frame Under the Sign of Death Called Suspended Animation; To Which Remedies Have Been Sometimes Successfully Applied, as in Other Disorders, in Which It Is Recommended, That the Same Remedies of the Resuscitative Process Should Be App The Works, which have been written on this subject, appear at various times to have excited violent alarms on the danger of Premature Interment; yet they seem never to have represented the matter under a just point of view; and it is certain, that they have never produced an important effect on the institutions of any country, in which these fears have been excited. The only change, which has ever been pretended to be effected, and which the writers on this subject appear ever to have projected, is the delay of Interment, and it will not be difficult to understand, that a more extraordinary device cannot well be imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Walter Whiter
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781361920893
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Author: Walter Whiter
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781407678832
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Author: Tbd
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Published: 2020-02-12
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780371499054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maria Pia Donato
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1317048512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance and last confession. Special masses were celebrated to implore God’s clemency and Pope Clement XI ordered his personal physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to perform a series of dissections in the university anatomical theatre in order to discover the 'true causes' of the deadly events. It was the first investigation of this kind ever to take place for a condition which was not contagious. The book that Lancisi published on this topic, De subitaneis mortibus (’On Sudden Deaths’, 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death; it was not only an accomplished example of mechanical philosophy as applied to the life sciences in eighteenth-century Europe, but also heralded a new pathological anatomy (traditionally associated with Giambattista Morgagni). Moreover, Lancisi’s tract and the whole affair of the sudden deaths in Rome marked a significant break in the traditional attitude towards dying, introducing a more active approach that would later develop into the practice of resuscitation medicine. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death and a new attitude towards dying first came into being, breaking free from the Hippocratic tradition, which regarded death as the obvious limit of physician’s capacity, and leading the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains in force to this day.