The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-22
RESUSCITATION
NEAR DROWNED
Historical Notes Concerning
the Practice of Restoring
Life to Those Rescued
from the Sea.

Alfred E. Veness of the Board of
Education who is DESTROYS to see
swimming taught in the public
schools was elected to the Royal Life
Saving Society of London 80 years
ago. He has made a study of the
art of resuscitation. From a hand
book issued by the society he gives
THE following notes on resuscitation:
The first recorded cases of resusci-
tating the apparently drowned are
mentioned in the notes to Derhams
Physico-Theology as having occur
red at Ironing holm and Oxford about
the year 1851 In the n.n year on The the
subject before the Royal Society. 1t
dealt with the recovery of man,
dead in appearance, having his lungs
distended by Mr.. William Tossack,
Surgeon in Alloa, in 1744.
In the year 1857, NJ. Reaumur, re-
ported several cases of resuscitation
which he had been able to effect in
Switzerland. and shortly after So
ciety was formed at Amsterdam for
The recovery of the apparently
drowned. and to instruct the common
people as to the best manner of
treating them when rescued, and to
reward the people for their services.
In 1773. Mr.. A. Johnson, MD,
suggested the formation of a similar
society in England, and DR.. Cogan
translated the memoirs of the Am
sterdam Society. DR.. Halves secured
a copy, and tried to form Society.
There was, however, strong preJu-
dice against the idea but he publicly
offered rewards to persons who, be-
tween Westminster and London
Bridges, should rescue drowning per-
sons and bring them to certain places
on shore in order that resuscitation
might be attempted. In this way he
toll in 10
several lives and paid the rewards
out of his own pocket, until his zeal
brought him sympathy, and the Roy
al Humane Society was founded. This
then In vogue of inducing artificial
respiration was by inserting the pipe
Of q pair of bellows into one nostril
and closing the other. Air was fore
ed into the lungs and then expelled
by pressing the chest, thus initiating
respiration. DR.. Halves used for
his resuscitation work a kind of era
die, in which the subject was placed,
and then raised over furnace.
Bleeding. holding up by the heels,
rolling on casks, ETC., were at various
times resorted to.
In 1891 a person was restored IN
Australia by being held over smoky
fire, which is a native method of re-
storing life; while few years back,
at q riverside town, a patient was saw
over his mouth and the alternate
blowing into and drawing air out of
the lungs until natural breathing was
restored
The oldest of the present-day meth
DDS is the one introduced by DR.. Mar
shall-Hall in 1856. 1t consists in
rollings the patient from the side to
face downwards, and applying pres
sure between the shoulder blades
This rolling is continued at the rate
of about Is times a minute. DR.. Sill
vester's method was introduced in
1857 In this method the patient
is laid upon his back and the arms
are pulled up above the head, then
folded and pressed against the sides
of the chest. When the arms are
pulled above the head the chest is
inflated, and when pressed against
the side it is Debated.
In 1869, DIR. Howard propounded
another method, which also requires
the patient being laid upon his back,
the pressure being applied by the
causing the air to be expelled from
the lungs. When the pressure is re-
leased the air re-enters.
The subject of reSuScitation has al
SO received considerable attention. in
various parts of the world. In Ger
many, In 1869, DR.. Schultz suggested
q plan; in 1871 DR.. Paaschs brought
forward another and in 1879 DR..
SCHUYLER a third, while in 1898 DIR.
Djeuitzen experimental on the same
subject in Sweden, and many other
medical men have also made it a
matter Of much study. A digest of
their conclusions, together with sug-
gestions for modified Sylvester
method was published at Upsala, Swe-