The San Francisco call., 1896-06-26
He SAVES HUMAN LIFE.
How to Restore Those Who Lose
Consciousness Through
Immersion.
Professor Kilick Thinks That Every
Child Should be Taught to Swim
and to Help Others.

Next to swimming, and it is my
strong opinion that every child should be
taught to swim" said Professor Frederick
III. Killick of the Sutro Baths yesterday,
''every child should be taught the princi-
Piles of life-saving, that is, the methods
necessary to restore to animation those
who have become insensible from INNER
sion. II has been my privilege in the past
few years TO lecture on this subject to
more than Is, 900 school children in Canada
and IN the United States. | have spent q
mum Der of years in the study of the vari-
Gus methods used by men prominent in
Europe and the United States, those of DIR.
Sylvester, DR.. Hall and of DR.. Howard,
which is that most practiced in the United
States. l have taken the best points
from each and combined them with view
of obtaining the very best results in case
of emergency.
How do l proceed in the case of an in
dividua who, to use a common express
sion. goes beneath the surface for third
time? L will tell you what do in case
such an emergency occurs at point where
there are none OF the appliances that are
In use In life resuscitation stations.
Whoever brings the body from the
water should before landing it allow it to
float face downward, for a moment only.
The body of person in tnat condition
should never be foated on the back. Say,
for instance that such body was brought
from the waters on to the beach close by
here, should, as soon as possible wade
in, crouch under the approaching body
and in raising form an arch of my back,
and in that way elevate the body out of
the water. l would then move quickly to
land. The knack in securing the body is
to have the lower limb swing over the
left shoulder and drop forward and in that
way give me sure hold on the individual
then the individuals stomach rests on my
back at an angle of about forty degrees,
and while in that condition the
Water which is in the lungs and
cavity of the chest escapes through
causing a pressure against the cavity
which helps to force out any water that
may have been in it and which had not of
its own weight escaped. If there was
house close by l would carry the body
there and keep every one away except two
persons who could assist. If not the body
should be laid on the sand and the mouth
and nostrils at once wiped free from a
mucus that is formed in every case.
Then the tongue should be secured by
either tying rubber band around it, or if
none is handy a piece of string will do.
Then the tongue should be pulled forward
and held so that il cannot fall back and
close the windpipe, and while this is being
done l would stand over the body, place
my hands under it on a line with the
shoulders and having locked them would
rock the body deliberately from side TO
side one of the arms of the individual
being placed in such position that the
head will roll on it and prevent it from
being chafed by the sand.
"Then the body should be rested on a
roll which can be made of a coat or any,
thing that will make an elevation of four
inches. This should be placed little be-
low the shoulders so that the chest will
form al arch. This having been done, and
mind you all this Is done in remarkably
short space of time, 1 would commence
producing artificial respiration. This
is done first by placing the thum bs of each
hand, end to end, over the breast bone and
extending the fingers in such way as to
cover as much as possible of the stomach,
then pressing down and raising the hands
without removing them from the body,
keeping up that motion. The arms should
by another person be taken at the elbows
and raised forward and lowered after the
fashion OF pump handle in a regular
manner and that kept up until there is a
sign of a return of natural breathing
When that is noticed the patient shoald
be chafed to assist the circulation of the
blood, which has become dormant but has
not lost its vitality, and after that grad
ual heat should be applied and rest en-
couraged.
''In the rooms set apart in this place for
me have all the appliances that are in
use in saving the life of those apparently
drowned, and have some Improvements
which my observation has proved to me
are of material assistance in the work.
One of these is a steam bed, on which the
patient is placed as soon as it is ascer-
tanned that natural respiration has been
set up. 1t is covered with several thick
nesses of blankets, and the moment the
patient is laid on it there is a blanket in a
roll at the foot of the bed which is used to
cover him. This is first folded in the CEN
ter, then pleated and rolled, and when
pushed forward it unrolls like thing of
life and falls over the patient and covers
him in the most perfect manner without
creating the cold that is produced bv
throwing blanket over the patient. As
the patient needs heat it is applied through
steam pipe under the bed until frli
sensibility is restored and the patient is
strong enough to be removed to another
room"
In several European countries butter is
sold by the yard. The rolls are ward IN