First Aid for Drowning, Hanging and Lightning, UNCUT

The Angler's Pocket-Book; or Compleat English Angler containing all that is necessary to be known in that art. Also Nobbs's Celebrated Treatise of the Art of Trolling. With an Appendix in which are Improvements and Discoveries, never Before Published

Woodcuts. Pp. 148. 12mo, London: Printed by H. K. Causton, Sold by James Asperne, 1805. Third edition. Later boards, UNCUT; printed paper label on spine, some short cracks along joints, some soiling and marginal browning of text, generally light, else very good.

RARE. The last four pages consist of FIRST AID FOR CASES OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION , providing “Directions for the Restoration of the Drowned, those suspended by the cord; Intense cold or Tremendous Lightning” including forcing air into the lungs with a bellows in a nostril, not rolling them on casks, rubbing the body with flannel sprinkled with spirits, flour of mustard and a heated warming pan, also “electricity to be early employed either by the Medical Assistants or other judicious practitioners.” For those hanged they recommend cupping a few ounces of blood from the jugular. Robert Nobbes' “Art of Trolling” was first published in 1682. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 11, 156; Heckscher 69.

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