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The old wave

Roger Dickerson
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia | Vol 17, No 2 | a503 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/22201173.2011.10872780 | © 2011 Roger Dickerson | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 November 2025 | Published: 01 March 2011

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Roger Dickerson,, South Africa

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In 1788, Charles Kite, a member of the Royal Humane Society of London, an organisation devoted to salvaging persons seemingly dead, described the use of electricity to revive a three-year-old child who was taken for dead after falling out of a window.

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