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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bernt, Joseph |
| Title: |
Vorlesungen über die Rettungsmittel beim Scheintode und in plötzlichen Lebensgefahren |
| Place: |
Vienna |
| Publisher: |
Carl Gerold |
| Date: |
1819 |
| Item # : |
194767 |
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| Sale Number |
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393 |
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21 |
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| Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD |
| Sale Date |
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11/20/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 540 |
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| Description: |
| [viii], 206, [2] pp. 5 folding copperplate engravings. 8x4¾, original tan boards, pale green endpapers. First Edition. |
| Handsomely illustrated early work on resuscitation, i.e., the restoration to life after apparent death. Among the techniques are: mouth to mouth and nose to mouth breathing; insertion of a breathing tube via laryngeal cut; administering pure oxygen; exposure to tobacco fumes, ammonium hydroxide or camphor; stimulation of the chest. Bernt headed the University of Vienna's department of forensic medicine, the first such program in the world. |
| Condition: |
| Covers water stained; occasional foxing; otherwise very good. |
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