The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-10-02
RESUSCITATION BY HEAT
A SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR USE IN
SUSPENDED ANIMATION CASES.
Dr. T. $. Lnmberrs Method Of Treating
Persons Supposed to Be Drowned is
to Apply Heat to the Surface of the
Body- some Remarkable Cases,

we Oiten reau OF people SunpOSeu 10
he drowned that were soon taken from
the water, but life was extinct, writes
Henry NJ Dean, of Readsvillc, in n
letter TO the Boston Transcript. If, as
/ believe. such persons could have
been easily resuscitated had those
present known what TO do, such ac-
counts are most distressing.
In 1870 DIR. 4. S. Lambert. of New
York City, made public in little book
new method of resuscitation, which
has received surprisingly little atten-
ton. Dr. Lambert unfortunately min
much superfluous theorizing, but the
sensible person can easily understand
his main contention.
His sovereign remedy for suspended
animation caused by strangulation Is
the application of heat to the surface
of the body. He insists that there is
little or no water i'm the lungs of n
drowned person, and that autopsy
shows this. lie atiirms that the epig-
lottis in such cases closes automati-
cally upon the windpipe. Hence. the
first thing to do is simply TO lay the
body for moment on its face and let
the water drain from the mouth and
nose. Then turn It over and wrap the
whole body. except nose and mouth,
in many cloths, and then pour con-
stantly upon 1t water as hot as ones
hand can bear. Rubbing Is needless
or worse.
Some of DR.. Lambert's remarkable
accounts will make my meaning clear.
Thua, a black boy fifteen years old
fell early one morning into the waters
of the harbor at Havana and was
taken out apparently dead. He was
laid on the roof of house, n physi-
clan called. and for an hour or more
the usual means of resuscitation were
tried in vain. He was then left on the
roof. exposed TO the fierce heat of a
tropical sun. Five or six hours later
the coffin was ready, and two men
went to the roof to bring the body. but
found the boy alive and very little
worse for his adventure.
a man was taken out of the East
River at Forty-fourth street. New
York, who had apparently been under
water for some time. He was laid on
the grass near by under blazing sum
mer sun. After several hours the 30
lice took him on a stretcher to the sta
ton, where il was noticed that his
heart was beating. A brisk rubbing
of his ears soon restored him TO life.
a hoy of thirteen years, living in
Chillicothe, Ohio, rode a horse into a
river where the horse stumbling.
threw him into the water The groom,
who was with the boy, succeeded AT
length in getting the boy out in an ap-
parently lifeless condition, but was SO
Mortified that he did not obtain help |
for fully half an hour Then the fam |
lily physician came, who wrapped the !
body in blankets as hot as he could |
make them, renewing them constantly. |
In fifteen minutes the boy gave a faint |
sigh, then feeble groan, and in ten |
minutes more was fully restored to
DIR. Lambert was once n passenger
on steamer which was leaving
Cleveland for Buffalo. About s O'Clock
,. m. a deckhand fell into the water,
md his body was not recovered until
little after o O'Clock, and was then
oiled on. n barrel, etc. till about 10
'clock. Then the captain came to DR..
Lambert and asked il anything more
,ould be done. The doctor remem-
lll.n1 ,.ly INIn |
If animals by heat, which he had wit
lessed when a boy, but had then never
with heat upon drowned
human beings. But the captain agreed
With him that it could do no harm to
ry. DIR. Lambert swathed the body
n wet sheets and kept them as hot as
lis hands could bear. At about II
o'clock he detected a feeble and infre.
luent pulse. After about five minutes
more there came a gasp, and at length
mother The pulse and breath became
more frequent, and at ~ o'clock the
nan was conscious and spoke. About
O'Clock the man put on his clothes
nd walked off TO bed. The next morn
ng the man. though very cross, was
bout his work as usual.
And this treatment has also been
ound effective with infants that have
lever breathed and persons strangled
" hanging
DR.. Lambert's theory is that the
CESSATION of respiration and circulation
not necessarily death at all, but
imply natures method of preserving
fe until the heat needed to warm the
lood and stimulate the nerve centres
an be supplied from without. 1t is
etter that cold blood should not cir
ulate. And this state, when there is
o paralysis from fright or shock, and
here was robust health, may persist
or long time.
However this may be, the method
uggested has one great merit. 1t is
OF exclusive. Those who have more
aith In other methods may try them
nd If they fail may resort to this.
And the bare possibility that these
lings are so should command for