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During the 18th century individuals became much concerned with methods to be adopted for resuscitating those apparently drowned. With the extensive coastline of the British Isles and the frequently inclement weather, there was apparently no lack of clinical material on which the arts of resuscitation could be practiced.
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Proceedings of the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned. London, 1774 et seq
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Resnekov, L. (1977). Eighteenth Century Resuscitation. In: Safar, P., Elam, J.O. (eds) Advances in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6338-8_37
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