The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-30
WHAT TO DO IN DROWNINGs.
Under What Circumstances People
Should Not CO IN, Rathinn

Under What Circumstances People
Should Not GO in Bathing.
As this is the hight of the season for fresh
water and surf bathing, accidents are likely
to occur. Those who battle in the surf, if
they were always careful and cautious,
never venturing beyond life lines, which
| should always be put up at the bathing re-
| sorts at the seashore, and never exhausting
themselves by staying too long in the
surf, and the uninitiated who remain
close to the practiced swimmer, ought to
| escape without accident, but the frequency
| of asphyxia from submersion in the water,
| makes it necessary that it should be gener-
| ally known what to do when a partially
| drowned person is first brought from the
water. The relief should be prompt and
| intelligently directed.
In some of the cities of the North Atlantic
coast cards printed in large type giving
Directions for Restoring the Apparently
Drowned" are furnished for gratuitous dis
| trlbutlon for hanging up at ferry slips.
bridge approaches, boat houses and bath
| houses.
Recovery from asphyxia from drowning
can scarcely be expected to take place after
| an immersion of five or six minutes but
there are well authenticated cases where
restoration las taken place after an INNER
| sion or as much as twenty minutes. The
effort to resuscit ito should be persisted in
for at least two hours if physician can be
summoned no sooner. AS soon as return
ing vitality permits few drops of brandy
in little water should be given, followed
| by beef tea or easily digested nourishment,
as the system is exhausted by the violent
muscular efforts Of the person to save him
self or herself from drowning.
| The body should be recovered as soon as
| possible from the water; the face turned
| downward for a moment, with the fore
finger OF bystander slightly curved and
thrust backward, to depress the tongue, to
| favor the escape of small quantity of
water or mucus, or other substance,
| often collected at the base of the
tongue, over the entrance to the trachea
| (windpipe), which tends to obstruct the
entrance of air to the lungs. The barbarcus
practice of rolling the person over a barrel,
or hanging him head downward, to permit
the escape of water from the lungs. has
| almost ceased, in view Of the fact, now gen.
orally known, that no water can get into
the lungs.
This can be done as the body is being con-
| veyed to the nearest house, a messenger
having been previously dispatched to make
the arrangements involved in the following:
AS socn as the body arrives it should De
stripped of the clothing, rapidly dried,
placed on bed, previously warmed, the
head, neck and shoulders raised very lit
tie, If any; frictions with the dry bands
used to the extremitles and heated fiannels
! kept applied to the rest of the body.
Two methods are usually employed for
the purpose, the first known as "Sylvester's
Ready Method This consists, after the
| above suggestions have been carried OUT, in
pulling the tongue forward, which better
favors the passage of air along the base of
the tongue into the trachea (windpipe) and
| then drawing the arms away from the
sides Of the body and upward so as to meet
over the head, by means of which the ribs
| are raised Expansion of the chest by the
muscles (pectoraD running from them to the
| arms near the shoulder. A vacuum is thus
created In the lungs, the air rushes in, and
the blood then is purified by the passage of
the impure gases in the blood vessels to the
air and by che giving up by the air of
| portion of its oxygen TO the blood. The
arms are now brought down to the sides
and the elbows made to meet over what is
called the pit of the stomach. This pro
duces contraction of the walls of the chest
and expulsion of the impure air from the
| lungs.
Inc Leonce "ready method as it is
| called, is that of Marshall Hall The per-
son whose breathing is to be restored is
placed fat on the face, gentle pressure is
then made on the back, the pressure re-
| moved, the body turned on its side. or a
little beyond that. The body is then turned
again on the face, gentle pressure aga n
used 10 the back, then turned on the side.
This should be done about sixteen times in
| a minute.
Persons suffering from debility. especially
the debility peculiarly affecting the nervous
| system, should never be induced to go be-
| Yond depth in the water, or out of reach Of
| immediate assistance. There is no warning
in advance of the seizure, and the person
sinks at once. Many lives are lost each
season, in shallow as well as in deep water,
from these seizures, which could have been
avoided had the bather, perhaps just recov-
| ering from an attack of sickness, or even of
| indisposition, not neglected the precautions
| stated.
Beecham's Pills cure bilious and nervous
| ills.-AdU.