Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-29


afternoon. But the police did not
come for several hours. and then
took him apon stretcher to the
station, where it was found that his
cart was beating. A brisk rubbing
of his ears excited him to complete
activity. Why that form Of rub
bling was used / cannot guess. Prof.
Wilder, in the very valuable
Emergencies and How to Meet
Them" says: at is reported that
DIR. Joux, of Brussels, has restored
drowned man by applying plates
of iron nearly at n white heat to his
chest" Such ''heroic treatment
was not necessary to- heat him,
though of course it did do it. But /
judge that the heat was applied, not
to warm the man, but to act as
s'nlord," and burn the flesh and
nerves and thus excite the nervous
centres to action. The "intention"
was not, | think, fulfilled, but the
effect was the warming of the body,
but so far as the plates acted as a
mora they were injurious. Prof.
Wilder asks: Upon what occasion
did you try the hot water upon a
man 2" Upon a steamboat leaving
Cleveland for Buffalo July 4, p. NJ,
1913, hsa.4d fell into the water, and
soon sunk, just as the boat was
starting. They got him on to the
deck and started about 9. A little
before 10 the captain came to my
room and asked if [ would go down
and see if anything more could be
done said the man had been rolled
I h.,v ~rgk Off h
cold and apparently lifeless. In a
flash, suggested probably by the
heat near by, experiments tried a
few years before upon fowls, dog,
and cat-restOred by heat alone
came into my mind, and 1 said to
myself, Why not try the experiment
on this man? Here are plenty of
means; it will do no harm /; it may
restore him. / said to the captain
that if he would order a mattress,
some sheets, pail of hot and OF
cold water, and shut off the currents
of air, [ would go to work. He
said it would do no harm to try.
The sheets, wrung out as hot as my
hands would bear, were wrapped
about him nude, his head inclusive
except mouth and nOse, and changed
as often as they were little cooled.
To-day, with those abundant re-
sources, should wrap the sheets
about him with clothes on, and
keep the whole soaked with hot
water. About eleven his pulse was
first noticed, feeble and infrequent;
after about five minutes a gasp
came, and in Il seemingly long
~ ,s.af
contented to watch the increased
frequency of pulse ana breath. At
II O'Clock he was conscious and
spoke. The captain and the men
looked as if one had come from the
grave, and it seemed much that way
10 me. About one he put on his
clothes and walked off to bed. So
did /. The next morning he was
helping to unload the boat, very
mad. Such a temper is usually, |
believe, attendant upon resuscita-
ton. Why | cannot guess.
Several years after, two children
under water, one under ice, each
about the same time, from fifteen to
/ twenty minutes, were by hot wet
/ sheets restored in less than half an
hour, under my suggestion, when
/ they had been declared dead. A
fourth case was of "a young man in
| the TOmbs, this city, last winter.
He had sutfocated (hung) himself
by partial hanging. When he
was taken from his cell, and l was
/ called TO him, he was breathless,
and his pulse and heart beatless !;
his hands and his feet only were cold.
| ordered hot wet cloths to them,
which were Immediately applied.
I In five minutes his heart was beat
| ing breathing soon followed, and
! i'm quarter of an hour he was talk
/ ing. No effort was made in any of
! these four cases to restore anima-
ton, except by the application of
| heat, and in each case the most con-
venient way was by means of hot
wet cloths.
The professor asks Ibid you
originate the hot water method ?"
Not "hOt water method 20 Not
"hOt water" but heat method is the
better form of the question. But
the application of heat in the restO-
ration of the drowned is not new
it has, however, been considered as
subordinate, whereas it is the prin-
cipal (alsO principle). But | cannot
say that ! originated this idea. 1t
seems to have originated itself. /
Numbered into it accidentally, and
did not see it at first. When about
eighteen years of age, and pretty
we'll read in medical works, fnund
in the water-tub of the barn a hen,
partly on the ice and partly in the
water, partly frozen and partly not.
! took her in and laid her upon the
kitchen stove, in which ! had lit
tie while before made fire, ] then
went out, and after a little time re-
turned, and was much astUniShed
to see her walking about the floor,
since ! had not an idea that she was
alive. | thought upon reflection
that there must be some mistake. |
therefore drowned another hen sure,
and laid her on the stove, not warm
enough to ScOrch her feathers, and
watched her. She 'came to" sys-
tematiCaliy, and 80 did another, and
so did another, and l made up my
mind that that was the way with
hens. But did not generaliZe the
idea. The next summer, one hot
day, as 1 was Watching the first hen
with Il brood of chickens, and Won
dering how she could have been so
much frozen without injury, it Oc-
Cured to my mind that when / was
a small boy my mother told me to
put the cat and three of four kittens
into a bag and take them to Bare
Hill brook and drown them. When
there | tied a stone and long cord
to the bag and pushed the whole off
the stone bridge into the water.
When there was no more motion in
the bag | hauled it out, enptied its
contents upon the broad stone and
started for home. 1t was a hot sum-
mer's day, and the "Old OAK" by
the WsySide tempted me with its
cool shade awhile, and when
reached home my mother said,
"Why did you not drown the cat,
as / told you ~ She knew that
did not wish to do it. / replied,
and insisted that | did. "There is
no use in telling that story. Go and
look out of the back door and see
what you have to say" j was as
touished, if ever boy is in that
state of mind. Sure enough, the
same cat that | left on the bridge as
dead was sitting there licking her
fur and that of the kitten lett at |