A LETTER ON SUSPENDED ANIMATION,

CONTAINING

EXPERIMENTS

Shewing that it may be safely employed during

OPERATIONS ON ANIMALS,

With the View of ascertaining

ITS PROBABLE UTILITY IN SURGICAL OPERATIONS ON THE

Human Subject,

Addressed to

T. A. KNIGHT, ESQ. OF DOWNTON CASTLE, Herefordshire, ONE OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

BY DR. H. HICKMAN, OF SHIFFNAL;

Member of the Royal Medical Societies of Edinburgh, and of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

IRONBRIDGE: Printed at the Office of W. Smith. 1824.