New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-24
IN CASES OF DROWNING.
AN EXPERT DESCRIBES TWO EXCEL
LENT WAYS TO RESUSCITATE
VICTIMS

To restore the drowning no time should be lost in
moving the patient or waiting for doctor To
know what to do and do it with all speed. may
a life that minutes loss of time might lose
Many are the methods that have been employed
but the following two, given by one who has res
cued many persons from the surf said TO be
the best:
In the first place the operator places himself his
knees behind the patients head seizes both of the
patients the elbows, and sweeps them
around horizontally and the head. until they
meet above It, when he gives them a strong pull
which he keeps up for one or two seconds. This
effects inspiration. He next returns the
to the front surface of the chest and makes a
strong pressure against the lower ribs in TO
force the air from the chest and produce respira
ton. This occupies about a second of time. He
repeats these thus producing about twenty COM
plete acts OF respiration in minute, and keeps it
up until natural breathing has been restored it
Is certain that life is extinct
BY the second method the operator lays the pa
tient on his back and places roll of clothing
under the loins, to make the short ribs bulge
prominently forward and raise them little higher
than the level OF the mouth. The then
stretched forcibly back the head crossed. and
held IN this position by assistant, who also
holds the tip OF the tongue corner of the
mouth. graspng it with dry handkerchief. The
operator then kneels astride the patients hips
and, with his hands resting the stomach of the
patient, spreads out his fingers. as 10 grasp the
waist about the short ribs. He throws all his
weight steadily forward upon his hands while at
the same time he squeezes the ribs deeply, "as if
he wished to force everything in the chest upward
out of the mouth" This pressure is continued
while one. two, three, slowly counted, when it
is suddenly removed with a final push which
springs the operator back to his first kneeling posi-
ton After an interval during which one two
three are again slowly counted the pressure is
repeated, and the process continued as long as
necessary.
While either of these processes is going on an
other person, without in any way interrupting them
should cover the body with the best available thing
at hand and remove the wet clothing as quickly as
possible, loosening the garments under the body
and drawing them down over the feet. The body
should then be gently slipped onto something dry
and covered with dry fabric If the first has be-
come damp. Warmth is to be secured by any
means thai ingenuity may suggest. Hot bottles
plates, Dicks or stones even boards that have
AT the seashore there is plenty of hot sand and
bo5y an et OF BAKING not bathing costumes The
rubbed toward the heart to help the blood in its
A gtimglant should be given as soon it can be
| sWallowed-a nalf-teaspoonful Of whiskey brandy
every ten minutes until an ounce has been taken.
o AS natural breathing begins to be attempted 1t
artificial respratioHs to 1t. 1t may stimulated by
nose BY siapping the skin lightly but smarty or
| by dashing hot water upon the chest Where it is
than that Of good faradic battery, used so as to
pain it causes Little by little natural Breathing
! will take the place Of the artificial. but it must
not be left unmatched for time.
| Nothing but danger from cold or pressing neces-
siy should prompt the removal of the patient from
| the place where he is being treated. Not until
| respiration is perfectly established should he be
| disturbed If removal cannot be avoided. il must
| be effected with great
| After resuscttation the patient should be placed
| in a warm bed, being carefully carried TO 1t with
| the head low, strict watch being kept meanwhile
| on the breathing lest the heart suddenly stop
| Even though the natural brea thing has not ceased
all the steps Just described should be carried out
| with the exception of artificial respiration. But
this should be resorted to upon the first intimaton
| that natural respiration is falling
| The cessation of the pulse at the wrists must
! never be taken a an indication Of death, life
| may be present where even an acute ear cannot
detect the sound of the heart. Deep pressure with
| the finger ends just below the lower end of the
breastbone may sometimes reveal pulsatiOn of the
| aOrta main artery of the heart and body when
| II cannot be found anywhere else.