Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — An Important Medical Tact. [ARTICLE]

An Important Medical Tact.

Si i o-E A.vekted t;v .Means of Artifici.il Respi ration. Several days ago a well-known citizen utteempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum. Ileiswallowe.l about, two o-qm'i-s and a half. Ah soon as the fact be am • known med! tl aid was ciillc 1 in. the stomach-pump and! other application:. mml \. but seemihgiy.all in vainAil Lope of averting Heath Avas atj last given . Up by those in at temf itn'o. Soip-' several horn's after Ihe cci'ur.-t nee,, .tin?: physician of the f:> ini 1vi:: ri i veil .Jin t too. late, as was supposed, to -do ativ good! Thie thought struck |iim, however, of testing the efficiency : of artiiieial, respiration, so succesfully used, as !ate,i in milfe of strangulation 'by water. ■ He proceeded . iitrfm-di.itcly to jvork, and son'll began to perceive symptojas of im- , pimvement. Fucoui'tiged lie laboK-d on, as.sis etl by medical gent [eim?n, and in the; course of niiie h-mrs succeeded iii restoring! the uiilortuuate man. Tlfe intended suicide | is miWiweil. The entire success! of the ex-: perimotit is xybrt hy t lof the faculty. 'Ciii-iiinuli J'ink s.