An address to the King and Parliament of Great Britain, on the important subject of preserving the lives of its inhabitants, by means which, with the sanction and assistance of the legislature, would be rendered simple, clear, and efficacious to the people at large ... With an appendix, in which is inserted a letter from Dr. Lettsom, to the author. To which are subjoined, hints for improving the art of restoring suspended animation: and also for administering dephlogisticated air in certain diseases, and particularly in the present epidemic-termed influenza. Proposed (in a letter to Dr. Hawes) / By A. Fothergill.

  • Hawes, William, 1736-1808
Date:
1782
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Credit: An address to the King and Parliament of Great Britain, on the important subject of preserving the lives of its inhabitants, by means which, with the sanction and assistance of the legislature, would be rendered simple, clear, and efficacious to the people at large ... With an appendix, in which is inserted a letter from Dr. Lettsom, to the author. To which are subjoined, hints for improving the art of restoring suspended animation: and also for administering dephlogisticated air in certain diseases, and particularly in the present epidemic-termed influenza. Proposed (in a letter to Dr. Hawes) / By A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS, &c. i 1 * MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, jr, f r v* ( j rl J , ! . My LORDS atjd GENTLEMEN, FrOM the Title of this Addrefs yoii may be inclined to think the Author has prefumed to attempt improving your poli- * * - tical Knowledge; but Politics are not the Objects of his Attention, or Information; his Wifh is to be ferviceable to his Fellow- Creatures of all Sedls, Parties and Deno¬ minations, by preventing the human Spe¬ cies from paying the Debt of Nature to the grim Tyrant Death, before it is by the B Laws