Bamji, A orcid.org/0000-0003-3256-7979 (2020) Blowing Smoke Up Your Arse: Drowning, Resuscitation, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Venice. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 94 (1). pp. 29-63. ISSN 0007-5140
Abstract
This article examines resuscitation practices in the second half of the eighteenth century, especially the new use of tobacco smoke enema machines on people who had been extracted from water with no signs of life. Drownings accounted for a small number and proportion of urban deaths, yet governments promoted resuscitation techniques at considerable expense in order to prevent such deaths. The visibility of drowning in religious, urban, and civic life encouraged engagement with new approaches. Analyzing the deployment of resuscitation practices illuminates three key features of premodern public health interventions: the focus of governments on the logistics of these interventions, the participation of physicians and surgeons at all levels of the professional hierarchy, and the importance of communication.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press. This is an author produced version of an article published in Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Drowning, early modern, intercession, public health, resuscitation, sudden death, tobacco smoke enema |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds) > EM History (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Aug 2019 10:21 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2020 10:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/bhm.2020.0001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:149881 |