Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-29
THEY ARE NOT DEAD.
Drowned Persons simply I'm a state
Of HibernatfOm-HeRt as N
Revtvtnm Agency.
An Interesting Statements and Xxx
plantation of IN Method of Saw
ing the Lives 0K the Appa-
reutlY Drowned.

MAA& hMAE XIV E8 IN hAAE n RNlaA-
rentIY Drowned.
In a note from Prof. Wilder. OF
Cornell University, received the
other day, he asks "Can YOU give
me any further information than
that contained in your letter to the
Evening Post Did you originate
the method Of hot water? Upon
what occasion was IL tried upon a
man? He also enclosed a synopsis
of two of his hygienie lectures en-
titled, Emergencies, and How to
Meet Them. 10 cts. 1fUttta7l IA
pdz.ro. Adapted to the pocket and
should be in every family" Many
like inquiries referring to 'scommu-
nications In the Evening Post" In
dictate a whispered interest among
your readers. Three questions are
asked by nearly every one: 'sDo
YOU mean that heat will restore a
man who is dead ?o "HOW do YOU
get the water out of the lungs 2"
Elbow long after being drowned
can a person be restored ?" One
letter asks sixteen other questions,
each germane. Therefore, think
it best to write to you a letter so
complete that no question will re-
main.
That the subject may be practi-
cally useful to every reader pains
will be spared to make il plain and
interesting. / will give, first, con-
else directions for restoring the
drowned second, several details in
regard thereto. and to modes Of
restoration from other forms of suf-
location: third, definite answers to
the aforementioned three ques-
tions; fourth, the factors directly
concerned in drowning and in restO-
ration; Illustrative cases showing
how the cheat method" has been
applied; questions answered sixth,
description of parts of the body eX-
planning our subject (; seventh, sum
mary of tissues and their needs.
To inspire the confidence and
attention which the importance Of
the subject demands, and which
from its nature il is entitled to re-
ceive, it Is sufficient TO say eight
cases of resuscitati0n by means of
heat alone and not one failure are
known. Such success gives prom
ise that a large majority of those
drowned and who are taken out CT
the water within a reasonable time
(within a few hours, perhaps a few
days), and q still larger proportion
of those otherwise suffOcated, will
be restored.
SIMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR REsTOR-
ING THE DROWNED AND THOSE
OTHERWISE SUEFOCATED.
First-Know that a person re-
Gently drowned is not dead, and
will not be for long time. If not
lively he is yet lifeful. Be not,
then, alarmed nor unduly excited,
but let ''faith, hope and charity"
inspire confidence and a cool judg-
ment to aid with deliberate haste in
taking the drowned out of the water
and in restoring him.
Secondly-When he is taken out
of the water turn his face down for
a moment only, to allow any water
in his nose or throat to run out I;
then place, him, out of currents of
air. upon his back, with his head
very slightly raised. Do not roll
him upon a Darrell, nor do anything
else to "get the water out of his
lungs" since there is none in them;
nor out of his stomach, since what
he has swallowed will not do any
harm.
Thirdly-Quickly determine if
he must be carried where heat is, or
if il can better be brought to or pro-
duced near him. If the former,
take him gently, quickly and as
near as possible in the above said
posture.
Fourthly-If there must be delay
i'm applying heat and dry protect
ives can be had, take off his wet
clothes and wrap the dry articles
about him to prevent loss of heat,
covering the head particularly. The
warm undertaking o, bystanders
can be contributed. Several thick
nesses of almost anything attainable
is better than one.
Filthy AS soon as heat is at
hand apply it as ingenuity and cir
cumstances suggest to be most
likely to quickly and thoroughly
warm the body. When that is ac-
cOmpIished theory and fact agree
in assuring us that, if life yet per-
sists. the heart will begin to beat,
happily soon followed by breathing,
both feebIy and unfrequently at
first, but more strongly and faster
until they become natural, when
consciousness will return. If the
heart gives one beat, or the lungs
one gasp, no more need be dOnei
keep the person warm and he Will
soon be sail right"
Sixthly-SuffOcatiO in any other
manner should be treated in the
same way, except that in choking
and in strangling the substances
causing these conditions should be
first removed and in case of breath
ing poisonous gas, or smoke, artifi-
cial respiration should first be tried
until the gas or smoke has been
changed for good air in the lungs.
The details OF restoration and va
rious suggestions can be better APP
preciated as a conclusion of all that
is to be said.
THE THREE QUESTIONS.
Let the three questions, which
everybody asks, be now conclusively
settled.
First-A person once dead cannot
be restored by heat, nor in any way.
No such attempt Is proposed. Life
does not thus go backward. That
which is dead can "cOme to lite"
only by going through the regular
gateways of vegetation, the roots
and leaves of plants. Some poet has
likened death to sleep; another calls
them twins. But science, looking
deeper than the surface, sees be-
tween them no resemblance, nor
more between death and drowning.
Animation, sleep, Information and
drowning are only different states of
positive life, merely more or less
dormant in the last three states
named each I'm fact being a high
form of life; the last being world
wide from death indeed il, in Its
case, being the wisest possible mode
of preserving potential life until
favOring conditions again permit
the manifestations of its activity.
Provisions for Information are cOn-
stitutiOnal i'm some, and for recOv-
cry from injuries in all animals. Is
ii then extrayagant to suggest that
in case of drowning active life is
more than wisely suspended in an
ficipation OF restoration ? The
closed windpipe protects the lungs,
raSuiratioD ceases. the blood every