Bath Humane Society’s instruments for resuscitation

An open wooden box with hinged, lined with green felt, into which are set cut-out mounts for various items of equipment, including silver pipes, bone or ivory shaped tubes, a wood, brass and leather bellows and a green India-rubber bulb with a brass neck. — The set includes bellows, bone and ivory tubes to fit the nose, silver endo-laryngeal tubes, flexible tubes for insertion into the patientÕs orifices, a scalpel for performing a tracheotomy, and an India-rubber bulb and tobacco burner for performing a tobacco smoke enema.

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1939 Bath Humane Society

Object id: EUR075

Following work in to save the drowned in first Amsterdam and then London, where the Royal Humane Society was founded in 1774 ‘for the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning’, Bath Humane Society was founded in 1805. The model was that persons assisting the drowned would receive a financial reward and it was reported that in the 30 years prior to the founding of Bath Humane Society that of the 4,785 accidents for which rewards had been issued 2,869 people were resuscitated from drowning successfully in London. In 1805 receiving houses were built along the canals and rivers in and around Bath, they were equipped with rope and pole drags for recovering drowned persons, and equipment for resuscitation. This apparatus is one of those resuscitation kits.