Royal Humane Society
The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention. It was founded in England in 1774 as the ''Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned'', for the purpose of rendering first aid in cases of near drowning. History In 1773, physician William Hawes (physician), William Hawes (1736–1808) began publicising the power of artificial respiration and Tobacco smoke enema#Medical opinion, tobacco smoke enemas to resuscitate people who superficially appeared to have drowned. For a year he paid a reward out of his own pocket to any one bringing him a body rescued from the water within a reasonable time of immersion. Thomas Cogan, another English physician, who had become interested in the same subject during a stay at Amsterdam, where was instituted in 1767 a society for preservation of life from accidents in water, joined Hawes in his crusade. In the summer of 1774 Hawes and Cogan each brought fifteen friends to a meeting at the Chapter Coffee ...
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A Man Recuperating In Bed At A Receiving-house Of The Royal Wellcome V0016537
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''a'' (pronounced ), plural English alphabet#Letter names, ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Greek alphabet#History, Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The Letter case, uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, "English articles, a", and its variant "English articles#Indefinite article, an", are Article (grammar)#Indefinite article, indefinite arti ...
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ...
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Colin Murdoch
Colin Albert Murdoch (6 February 1929 – 4 May 2008) was a New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian who made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilliser gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe and the child-proof medicine container. He had a total of 46 patents registered in his name. Biographical background Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1929, to parents Mary Kathleen and Frank William James, Murdoch displayed a talent for chemistry at a very early age. Although he struggled through his schooling years with dyslexia, Murdoch already displayed an interest in both mechanical and technical skills. At the age of ten he successfully made gunpowder and came to the realization that an ignition could be caused by the mixing of certain nitrates and sulphuric acid. This discovery led the young Murdoch to build a successful firearm using a wick and a small asbestos-filled hammer. At the age of 13 he was awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal ...
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Edwin Alderson
Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, KCB (8 April 1859 – 14 December 1927) was a senior British Army officer who served in several campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1915 to 1916 during the First World War he commanded the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, during which time it saw heavy fighting. Early life Born in 1859 in Capel St Mary, a village in Suffolk, Edwin Alderson was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Mott Alderson and his wife Catherine Harriett Swainson.Alderson, Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey
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Anthony Fothergill (physician)
Anthony Fothergill (c.1732–1813) was an English physician. Life Fothergill was born in 1732, or, according to other accounts, 1735, in Sedbergh, Yorkshire. He was educated at Sedbergh School and went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. October 1763 with a dissertation 'De Febre Intermittente,’ and afterwards continued his studies at Leyden and Paris. Medical career On the advice of Dr. John Fothergill (a friend, but not a close relation), he settled as a physician at Northampton. After some early difficulties, he was successful in practice, and was in 1774 appointed physician to the Northampton Infirmary. He was admitted licentiate of the College of Physicians 30 September 1779, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1778. On the death of John Fothergill, in 1780, Anthony moved to London, and established himself in the house in Harpur Street, Red Lion Square, formerly occupied by his namesake, in the hope of succeeding to his professio ...
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure consisting of chest compressions often combined with artificial ventilation in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest. It is recommended in those who are unresponsive with no breathing or abnormal breathing, for example, agonal respirations. CPR involves chest compressions for adults between and deep and at a rate of at least 100 to 120 per minute. The rescuer may also provide artificial ventilation by either exhaling air into the subject's mouth or nose (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) or using a device that pushes air into the subject's lungs (mechanical ventilation). Current recommendations place emphasis on early and high-quality chest compressions over artificial ventilation; a simplified CPR method involving only chest compressions is recommended for untrained rescuers. Wit ...
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Mouth-to-mouth Resuscitation
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, a form of artificial ventilation, is the act of assisting or stimulating respiration in which a rescuer presses their mouth against that of the victim and blows air into the person's lungs. Artificial respiration takes many forms, but generally entails providing air for a person who is not breathing or is not making sufficient respiratory effort on their own. It is used on a patient with a beating heart or as part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to achieve the internal respiration. Pulmonary ventilation (and hence external respiration) is achieved through manual insufflation of the lungs either by the rescuer blowing into the patient's lungs, or by using a mechanical device to do so. This method of insufflation has been proved more effective than methods which involve mechanical manipulation of the patient's chest or arms, such as the Silvester method. It is also known as expired air resuscitation (EAR), expired air ventilation (EAV), rescue b ...
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RHS Police Ribbon
RHS may stand for: * Ramsay Hunt syndrome, several medical conditions * Rectangular hollow section, a type of metal profile * Retired husband syndrome * '' Revue d'histoire de la Shoah'', an academic journal about the Holocaust (Shoah) published in France * Right-hand side of an equation * Royal Horticultural Society * Royal Hospital School, an independent naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk * Rural Housing Service, in the USDA Rural Development Agency * Radnor High School, a public high school in Radnor, Pennsylvania * Ralston High School * Richmond High School (Richmond, California) * Richmond Secondary School Richmond Secondary School, (commonly, Richmond High School and RHS) is a public, co-educational secondary school located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, that educates approximately 1200 students from grades 8 to 12. Richmond Secondary is ...

RHS Bronze Ribbon
RHS may stand for: * Ramsay Hunt syndrome, several medical conditions * Rectangular hollow section, a type of metal profile * Retired husband syndrome * '' Revue d'histoire de la Shoah'', an academic journal about the Holocaust (Shoah) published in France * Right-hand side of an equation * Royal Horticultural Society * Royal Hospital School, an independent naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk * Rural Housing Service, in the USDA Rural Development Agency * Radnor High School, a public high school in Radnor, Pennsylvania * Ralston High School * Richmond High School (Richmond, California) * Richmond Secondary School Richmond Secondary School, (commonly, Richmond High School and RHS) is a public, co-educational secondary school located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, that educates approximately 1200 students from grades 8 to 12. Richmond Secondary is ...

RHS Silver Ribbon
RHS may stand for: * Ramsay Hunt syndrome, several medical conditions * Rectangular hollow section, a type of metal profile * Retired husband syndrome * '' Revue d'histoire de la Shoah'', an academic journal about the Holocaust (Shoah) published in France * Right-hand side of an equation * Royal Horticultural Society * Royal Hospital School, an independent naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk * Rural Housing Service, in the USDA Rural Development Agency * Radnor High School, a public high school in Radnor, Pennsylvania * Ralston High School * Richmond High School (Richmond, California) * Richmond Secondary School Richmond Secondary School, (commonly, Richmond High School and RHS) is a public, co-educational secondary school located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, that educates approximately 1200 students from grades 8 to 12. Richmond Secondary is ...

RHS Stanhope Ribbon
RHS may stand for: * Ramsay Hunt syndrome, several medical conditions * Rectangular hollow section, a type of metal profile * Retired husband syndrome * '' Revue d'histoire de la Shoah'', an academic journal about the Holocaust (Shoah) published in France * Right-hand side of an equation * Royal Horticultural Society * Royal Hospital School, an independent naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk * Rural Housing Service, in the USDA Rural Development Agency * Radnor High School, a public high school in Radnor, Pennsylvania * Ralston High School * Richmond High School (Richmond, California) * Richmond Secondary School Richmond Secondary School, (commonly, Richmond High School and RHS) is a public, co-educational secondary school located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, that educates approximately 1200 students from grades 8 to 12. Richmond Secondary is ...

Stanhope Medal
The Stanhope Medal or Stanhope Gold Medal is an international award given annually by the United Kingdom's Royal Humane Society for the most courageous and heroic rescue that was made in the previous year. It is named in memory of British Royal Navy officer Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope, who performed several life-saving events during his lifetime. Background The "Stanhope Medal" is named after British Royal Navy officer Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope (1823–1871). He served as a Mate (naval officer), naval officer mate from November 1842 after he passed his officer's exam. He was promoted to lieutenant in March 1846. Stanhope was also a personal assistant to First Lord of the Admiralty Hugh Childers. He served on , a 50-gun ship with captains Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet, Sir John Hay and Provo Wallis, Sir Provo William Parry Wallis. He was appointed in December 1846 to , a 110-gun ship of John West (Royal Navy officer), Sir John West at HMNB Devonport, Devo ...
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