St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-18

| Fig. 2. Showing position and action of the
operator in alternately producing artificial
expiration and inspiration of air.
there he another person present, let him,
| with piece of dry cloth, hold the tip of
the tongue out of the corner OF the mouth
| this prevents the tongue from falling back
| and choking the entrance to the Wndpipe),
and with the other hand grasp both wrists
and keep the arms forcibly. stretched back
above the head, thereby increasing the
prominence Of the ribs. which tends to
enlarge the chest. The two last named
positions are not, however. absolutely essen.
| tial to success. Kneel beside or astride the
patients hips, and, with the balls of the
thumbs resting on either side of the pit of
the stomach, let the fingers fall into the
grooves between the short ribs, so as to afford
| the best grasp of the waist. Now. using
your knees as pivot. throw all your weight
| forward on your hands, and at the same
! time squeeze the waist between them, as if
! you wished to force everything in the chest
upward out of the mouth; deepen the pres
/ sure while you can count slowly one, two,
three; then suddenly let go with final
| push, which springs you back to your first
kneeling position. Remain erect on your
| knees while you can count one, two three;
then repeat the same motions as before at a
|
to fifteen times in minute, and continue
thus this bellows movement with the same
regularity that is observable in the natural
motions of breathing which you are imitat-
! ing. If natural breathing be not restored
after trial of the bellows movement for
! the space of three or four minutes, then
! turn the patient a second time on the stom-
ach as directed in Rule 2. rolling the body in
! the opposite direction from that in
which it was first turned for the purpose
! OF freeing the air passages from
any remaining water. Continue the artificial
respiration for one to four hours, or until
the patient breatheS. according to rule 3,
! and for awhile after the appearance of re-
turning life carefully aid the first short
| gaSps until deepened into full breaths.
! Continue the drying and rubbing, which
should have been increasingly practced
from the beginning by the assistants. TAX
ing care not to Interfere with the. means
employed to produce breathing Thus the
| limbs of the patient should be rubbed al
ways in an upward direction, toward the
body, with firm grasping pressure and EN-
| ergy, using the bare hands, dry t1annelS or
| handkerchiefs, continuing the friction un-
der the blankets or over the dry clothing
| The warmth Of the body can also be pro-
NOTED by the application of hot fannelS to
! the stomach and arm-pits, bottles or bad
derseof hot water, heated bricks, etc., to
1 the limbs and soleS of the feet
Rule d. After-treatment. AS soon as
| breathing is established, let the patient be
stripped of all wet clothing. wrapped in
blankets only, put to bed comfortably
warm, but with free circulation of fresh
| air, and left to perfect rest. Give whisky,
or brandy and hot water, in doses of a tea
spoonful to tablespoonful, according to
the weight of the patient, or other stimu-
lants at hand. every ten or fifteen minutes
for the first hour. and as often thereafter as
may seem expedient. After reaction is
fully established, there is great danger of
congestion of the lungs. and if perfect rest
| is not maintained for at least forty EIGHT
| hours, it sometimes occurs that the patient
lis seized with great difficulty of breathing.
I and death is liable to follow unless mmedi-
ate relief is afforded. In such cases apply
I a large mustard plaster over the breast If
the patient gasps for breath before the
mustard takes effect, assist the breathing
by carefully repeating the artificial respira-
ton.
DR.. Labordette, the supervising surgeon
| ofthe hospital of Lisieux. in France. ap-
pears to have established that the clinchmg
of the jaws and the standardization of the
cred signs OF death, are in fact evidences
of remaining vitality. After numerous eX-
periments with apparently drowned per-
sons, and also animals he concludes that
these are only signs accompanying the first
stage of suffocation by drowning tie Jaws
and hands becoming relaxed when death
ensues. The rigor morris or muscular rig
idity of death comes later, after this tenn
porary relaxation. The mere clinchng of
4 the jaws and standardization of the hands
must not be considered as reasons for the
discontinuance of efforts to save life. but
should serve as stimulant to vigorous and
! prolonged efforts to quicken vitality. Per-
sons engaged in the task of resuscitation
are, therefore. earnestly desired to take
I hope and encouragement for the life of the
sufferer from the signs above referred to
t and to continue their endeayOrs accord
7 ingly. In a number of cases DR.. Labor
I dette restored to life persons whose laws
were so firmly clinched that to aid respira-
ton their teeth had to be forced apart with
iron instruments.
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