Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Scottish Expedient. [ARTICLE]

Scottish Expedient.

A curious method°of resuscitation in vogue among the miners of Scotland in the case of insensibility from exposure to choke-damp, and which is said to be very efficacious, is as follows: The half suffocated man is placed face downward over a hole freshly dug in the earth, and allowed tp lie until he shows signs of consciousness. The idea involved in this proceeding is that the fresh earth draws the foul gas out of the lungs.