Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-26

ly to the delight of the life-saving
officers, the boy gave slight gasp for
breath
Just at this moment of triumph the
policeman on guard called across the
decks, essay, you'd better let that boy
alone. He's dead enough"
they don't know what they're talking
about" said the officer. Get me a
glass of brandy"
He redoubled his artificial breathing
treatment, and one of the fishing sailors
went down into the cabin and soon re-
turned with a tumbler nearly full of not
very inviting looking brandy. The boy
meanwhile gasped again; had twitched
little in the legs; had rolled his head to
one side, and at length had drawn
good-sized breath. The minute he
breathed the officer picked up the glass
of brandy and poured the liquid down
the boys throat.
"Now, get the two or three blankets
quick as you can" said he, and at the
same time he unrolled his coat and laid
it over the boy. The patient continued
to show more signs of life. He soon
drew short but regular breaths, and
raised one hand to his head. Under the
influence of the warm brandy in his
stomach and the fresh air in his lungs he
opened one of his eyes.
HE is all right now" said the officer,
getting up with difficulty and straight
ening the "kinks" out of his back.
Wrap him up well in these blankets
and put him in a berth. Be sure you
make his hands and feet warm. Ii you
have couple of empty bottles fill them
with water, cork them well and put them
against his feet. In ten or fifteen min
utes give him another glass of brandy.
He will be able to talk to you inside of
an hour and tell you where he lives.
But he will probably be too weak to walk
home; some of you will have to carry
him. Come, old fellow ito the reporter),
let us go. There is nothing more for us
to do"
The profound respect with which he
was treated by the policemen on guard,
and the cheers of the crowd on shore,
who knew the boy had been saved from
death only through the knowledge and
willingness of the life-saving officer, were
both thrown away on him.
cts the easiest thing in the world"
said he, seated in the cabin of ferry
boat, elf you only go at it right. I did
not know how long the boy had been III
the water and was a little afraid he might
be dead. If he was really dead, of
course that settled it; for nothing human
can bring a dead person back to life.
But if he was only III state of coma, as
you see he Yves, it needed only the
proper treatment to set him on his pins
again. Nine people out of ten who are
ished out of the water are not dead.
The life is still there, but it is dormant.
There are just three things to do in such
case. First, clean all the sand and
mud out OF the patients mouth, so he
will not choke to death; you saw did
that. Second, drain the water out of
his lungs: you saw how easily that was
done; but be sure in doing it, always to
have his feet higher than his head.
Thirdly, start the respiration; you know
how to do that. But [ might have gone
little further. If the boy had not be-
gun to show signs of life just as he did,
I should have breathed into his lungs to
start them up. L should not have given
him up, at any rate, with less than half
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life-saying service method for restoring
apparently drowned persons. All our
surfmen are taught how to do it, and it
| is valuable thing for them to know, as
you may easily imagine. The boy? Oh!
he'll soon be all right, ready to try it
over again. But maybe some day he'll
be saying to himself, IF only that mis-
cradle fellow had minded his own bust
ness, and let me die when I was SO near
gone"