Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-12-23
To Resuscitate Drowned Persons.
A VALUABLE PApER.

| functions, will go into the water before
/ they learn how 10 swim, some interest
| Will he felt in the following method of
! resuscitatlng persons taken insensible
( from The water, by writer in prom.
! inent Northern journal, who brings Ia
/ the support of his theories variety
of successful practice.
/ He does not claim TO bring life to per-
4 sons once dead. There is nothing short
I of the Almighty fiat can do that. But
/ he claims that many persons given up
/ for dead and in whom to all outward
1 appearances life is really extinct, may be
/ restored if the proper method of treat
/ ing them is adopted.
! As no trustworthy indication of tho
( exact moment when life in case of suilo-
I cation is extinct is given, efforts TO re-
( store suspended animation ought not, in
| the writer's opinion, be suspended ut
( least until there are unmistakable signs
/ of decomposition. He cites a case where
7 q young lady, drowned in the Norwalk
/ disaster, was restored several hours after
( the body was recovered; and he has
personally seen animals brought to life
I after a much longer time had elapsed.
The directions restoring the drown
ed and those otherwise sutlocated, are
given by the writer, and have been fol-
lowed by him in many cases, successful
/ ~ reviving several who have been pro.
/ nounced dead by physicians and all
I hope abandoned. As these direct
ions may be of great value to some of
our readers, we give them in substance:
|. Know that person recently
( drowned is not dead, and will not be
for long time, If not living he is yet
lieful.
2. When he is taken out of the water,
turn his face down for n moment only,
TO allow any water in his nose or throat
10 run out then place him, out of cur
rents Of air upon his back with his
head very slightly raised. DO not roll
him upon a barrel nor do any thing 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.
3. Quickly determine whether no
must be carried TO where heat is, or ii
it can better be brought to or produced
near him. If the former, take him gem
tly, quickly and rs near as possible in
the above posture.
4. If there must be delay in apply
ing heat, and dry protectives can be had,
take OIL his wet clothes and wrap tho
dry articles about him TO prevent loss
Of heat, covering the head particularly.
The warm undertaking Of the by
ISLANDERS can be contributed. Several
thickncsses of almost anything attaina-
BILE is better than one.
D. As soon as heat is at hand, apply
it MS ingenuity and circumstances sug-
gcst to bc most likely TO quickly and
thoroughly warm the body. When
this has been accomplished, theory and
fact agree in assuring Ms that II life still
EXISTS, the heart will begin to beat,
happily soon followed 10y breathing,
both feeble and unfrequent ut first, but
more strongly and faster until they be-
come natural, when consciousness VIII
return. If the heart gives one beat, OF
the lungs one gasp, no more need be
done; keep the person warm, and he
will soon be all right
6. Suiiocation In any other manner
should be treated in the same way,
except that in choking or strangling, the
substance causing these conditions
should be first removed and in case
of breathing poisonous gas, or smoke,
artificial respiration should be tried un-
ill the gas or smoke has been changed
for good air in the lungs.
This is entitled the method of resto-
ring by heat. The writer's attention
was directed TO it when young by OBJ
serving animals, hens, eats and dogs,
which had been accidentally or pur-
posely drowned, come 10 life where the
bodies, out Of the water, were exposed
to high sun heat. He therefore made
experiments with animals, waiting,
after drowning until every symptom of
life had disappeared even the pu!satons
)r The heart, and in every ease he re.
stored life by the application of dry or
moist heat.