quartz/content/notes/persons-apparently-dead.md

title	aliases	tags
persons-apparently-dead		cosc203 asgn3

delayed acceptance of discovery is always a factor in science.

e.g.,

• miroscope invented 1668 - germ theory ignored until 1850
• 1754 citrus cures scurvy - was not widely used until 50 years later
• before ww1 penicillin discovered - rediscovered 1928
• 1902 surturing of blood vessels - not used until 1967

resuscitation. 1774 society for recovery or persons apparently drowned - humane society - royal humane society

• provoked fears about the uncertainty of the state of death
• buried alive?
• riot over dissection of hanged man
• used bellows which sometimes broke lungs
• these ideas were rejected
• the proponents of the movement were not all doctors per se, just ordinary citizens