Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Artificial Perspiration. [ARTICLE]

Artificial Perspiration.

The Medical I’iess and circular, 1880, informs us that in a communication to the French Academy, Professor F.ort raises against the question of prematnre interments. One fact he mentions is, that he was enable to restore to life a child three years old, by practicing artificial respiration on it in four hours, commencing three hours and s tadT after ;apparent death. Another case was oorniMßHioated to him by Dr. Fouraol, of Billanconro, who, in July, 1878, reanimated a nearly drowned person after fonr hours of artificial respiration. This person had been in the water ten urinates, and the doctor arrived one hour after asphyxia. Professor Fort insisted also on the utility of artificial respiration in case of poisoning, in order to eliminate the poisons from the lungs and glands. The length of time it is desired to practice artificial respiration in any case of apparent death from asphyxia, Professor Fort has not yet determined, bnt his general conclusion is that it should be maintained perseveringljr for several hours.