Chapter V: ESSAY on the best Means of preventing the fatal Effects of the Bite

of a Mad Dog, read before the BATH SOCIETY, and published in the
Ninth Volume of their Memoirs.

_Lately Published_,
Dedicated and presented, by permission, to _His Majesty
Embellished with Elegant Engravings_,
executed by the ablest masters,
_Under the Direction of Mr. Alderman BOYDELL_.

_PLATES._

1.—A PORTRAIT OF THE KING,
2.—APPARENT DISSOLUTION,
3.—RETURNING ANIMATION.

_Transactions of the Royal Humane Society, From 1774 to 1784_,

_With an Appendix of Miscellaneous Observations on_
SUSPENDED ANIMATION,
to the year 1794.

By W. HAWES, M. D.

Senior physician to the Surry and London Dispensaries—Honorary Member
of _R. P. S. Ed._ Massachusett’s _H. S._—Manchester _L. P. S._—Bath
and West of England _A. S._ &c.

Printed for the Society;
and sold by Rivington, Dilly, and Johnson.

[Printed by J. NICHOLS, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.]

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xii│New diving machine,—its peculiar│[Deleted from TOC—no such
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