Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-12
DIR. LAMBERT.s DOG.

DIR. Lambert, ex-president of the American
Popular Life Insurance company, has
hit novel method for the recovery
of drowned persons. He claims that
the theories followed by Syl-
vester, the Royal Humane society and others
are radically wrong. They all lay stress on
artificial respiration-the forcing of air into
the lungs las the means of restoring ANNA
ton, whereas the doctor holds that hot water
alone, applied externally, is all that is
needed.
A Sun reporter called on DR.. Lambert in
his cell in the city prison yesterday, and
heard him say: 81 found the thing out when
l was boy, not by any wit or wisdom of my
own, and, therefore, I do not claim any credit
for it. l simply wished to see it carried out
as benefit to suffering humanity. One
winters morning found q chicken lying in
frozen se-trough. The trough was
about half full of water, and the bird lay
partly on the ice and partly in the water, to
all appearance frozen stiff. 1t had been
there six or seven hours, and was APP
parently dead. / took it, intending to
pluck it and have it cooked for dinner, and
with this purpose laid it on hot stove in
order to thaw it out. / laid the frozen side
downward and turned away to something
else. When next looked at the fire the
head of the bird was moving about in pc
culiar manner, now rising, now falling to-
ward the heated surface. l watched it, and
became convinced that it was being restored
to life. It futtered more and more, and
finally I took it off the stove and found it to
be live chicken!''
E'Wonderful!'
81 explain this" continued the Doctor,
unmoved by the open-mouthed admiration
of the surrounding turkeys, on the theory
that the heat acted on the nervous centres of
the chicken, these on the heart, and the
latter upon thu blood. The blood circulated
and the chicken breathed."
81 had dog once" added the speaker. in
a low, tremulous tone of regret. 81 sup
pose if drowned that dog once I drowned
him half dozen times to test this question.
Sometimes after drowning him would let
him lie out in the warm sunlight, and with
out anything hotter than the SUMS rays to
revive him, he would gasp, catch his breath,
and graduIy come to life again."
"Have you got that dog yet, Doctor?''
asked the reporter, mindful of the value of
such an animal from an exhibitors point of
view.
The doctors answer was inarticulate, but
dead, in fact. When he also added that he
had also cut the faithful brute's windpipe,
while it was in comatose state, to see if
any water got into his lungs, and that the
cutting proved no bar to his recovery, the
Suns representative was more than ever
impressed with the value of such a peerless
beast.
The Doctor went on: "But resuscitation
10 a hot Tou
promises. have known the hot water cure
to prove equally applicable in the case of a
man who was hanged in Pennsylvania some
years since. The fall was short one, and,
as the fellow was cunning enough to crouch
down when the drop fell, his neck was not
broken. Two minutes after his heart ceased
to beat he was cut down and handed over to
several doctors, of whom was one. We
worked this hot water cure in his case with
such success that he recovered under our
hands, and left the town a live man inside of
three hours.' He also qnoted case which,
he said, had been treated in this way by the
late DR.. James Lynch. A man fell into the
river at the foot of East Eighteenth street,
and remained under water from fifteen min
utes to half an hour. When taken out he
was thoroughly drowned. He was taken to
a house in Tenth street, between Third and
Fourth avenues, and DIR. Lynch was called.
Life was finally revived by tearing up car
pets, soaking them in hot water and wrap
ping them around the patient. DR.. Lynch
thenceforward became a convert to Lam
bert's views.
''This blowing cold air into people," said
the Doctor, "does them no good. 1t always
makes them colder. What you want to re-
store is the circulation, and this is best done
by wrapping the patient in blankets and
pouring on hot water, as hot as the flesh can
bear. That is the whole secret of it."