Episode 218: Reviving Apparently Dead Bodies in 1790s Charleston

from Charleston Time Machine · host Nic Butler, Ph.D.

A Charleston law of 1793 required the proprietors of pubs and barrooms to assist physicians attempting to revive the bodies of “apparently dead” persons lingering in a state of “suspended animation.” This medical endeavor, based on cutting-edge science of the day, involved procedures both ghoulish and comical that blazed a path towards the modern techniques of resuscitation.

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