Author: GOODWYN, Edm. (Transl. F.W. van der Leeuw] & A. Crawford.-
Title: Het verband tusschen het leven en de ademhaling, of proefondervindelijk onderzoek nopens de uitwerkingen van het verdrinken en wurgen, alsmede van verscheiden soorten van schaadlijke luchten, op levende dieren: Benevens eene opgave van den aart der Ziekte die zij veroorzaken; derselver verschil van den Dood zelve; en de kragtige middelen tot herstelling... Bound before 2) CRAWFORD, A., [transl. by Lorens Crell], Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Wärme der Thiere und die Entzündung der verbrennlichen Körper. Ein Versuch, alle diese Erscheinungen auf ein allgemeines Naturgesetz zurückzubringen... 2te Verm. Ausgabe aus dem Englischen übersetzt...
Description: Dordrecht; Leipzig, By Pieter van Braam, Boekverkooper; J.G.Müllerschen Buchhandlung, 1790. - 1789. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. W. 1 fold. plate in the Goodwyn and 4 engr. pls. (1 folding) in the Crawford. Nice contemporary gray/ black paste paper brds., w. spine labels in light green, giltlettered. (a few minor chips, nothing serious.). (VIII, 106; XVI, 382 pp.). (Some vague watersp. in the lower margin here and there; a few spots.). Very nice contemporary binding in paste paper brds., containing 2 publications by Goodwyn and Crawford resp., originally published in 1779 and 1788 under the titles: 'The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and ... noxious airs on living animals...' [London, Johnson, 1788] & 'Experiments and observations on animal heat, and the inflammation of combustible bodies...' [London, Johnson, 1788]: Comp. Wellcome vol. III, p. 136 and vol. II, 405: Ad 1) Hirsch vol. II, p. 801 [Goodwyn] 'ist bekannt durch seine Untersuchungen über die Asphyxie ... [Goodwyn won a prize for] die beste Wiederbelebungsmethode Asphyktischer ...' [using in his theory of drowning the latest discoveries made in chemistry]. First Dutch edition in a translation by F.W. van der Leeuw (see DMB c.1157 - 1158: '... an esteemed teacher. He also was engaged in physiology, studied the new theories of Priestley, Ingenhousz and Lavoisier, and gave a private course on chemistry...'): Comp. Truman Blocker coll. p. 182 : G&M 2028.53 Orig. ed. 1788) 'Goodwyn emphasized the importance of ventilation in resuscitation.': Dawson Cat. 91 (1956?) item 2794: 'He recommended not only that bodies of drowned persons should be warmed but he suggested as the first that OXYGEN SHOULD BE INTRODUCED INTO THE LUNGS.' (Ad 2) Hirsch vol. II, p. 139 [Crawford]. First German edition in a translation by Crell.: see Ferguson, vol. I, p. 181 - 182 (Much enlarged 2nd english ed. 1788): 'Of the above book the first edition appeared in 1779. It is of importance as it discusses the subject of specific heat, especially of gases.': Dawson cat. 91, item 1596 (2nd ed. enlarged 1788): 'Crawford's experiments clearly exhibit his sense of the difficulties surrounding the doctrine of 'phlogiston', which he admits, 'has been called in question' ... Crawford failed to realise the truth, which was so near to him. He determined, however, the specific heats of many substances, both solid and and liquid, and his investigations upon animal heat led Priestley to his admirable investigations.'(DNB): G&M 591 'Earliest experiments upon animal calorimetry.' (ed. 1779). On Crell see Partington vol. III, pp. 598 - 599 & Duveen & Klickstein, Bibl. Lavoisier, in extenso.

Keywords: suffocation medicine respiratory system asphyxia W28A