Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1879 — Restoring the Drowned. [ARTICLE]

Restoring the Drowned.

The season of numerous deaths from drowning having come, we reprint from a card, issued by the American Seamen’s Friend Society for gratuitous distribution, “ Directions for restoring those who are apparently drowned.” They were prepared by Dr. Benjamin Howard, have been approved by the Academy of Medicine and adopted by the Life Saving Society of New York: The first thing to be done is to arouse the patient, if possible, without moving him. Instantly expose the face to a current of fresh air, wipe dry the mouth and nostrils, rip the clothing, so as to expose the chest and waist, and give two or three quick smarting slaps on the stomach and chest with the open hand. If the patient does not revive, then pfoceed as follows: Buie I. Turn the patient on his face, a large bundle of tightly-rolled clothing being placed beneath his stomach, and press heavily over it for half a minute, or so long as fluids flow freely from the mouth. Buie 11. Turn the patient on his back, the roll of clothing being so placed beneath it as to raise the pit of the stomach above the level of any other part of the body. If there be another person present, let him, with a piece of dry cloth, hold the tip of the tongue out of one corner of the mouth, ana with the other hand grasp both wrists aDd keep the arms forcibly stretched back above the head. This position prevents the tongue from falling Dack and choking the entrance to the windpipe, and increasing the prominence of the ribs tends to enlarge the chest; it is not, however, essential to success.

Kneel beside, or astride, the patient’s hips, and, with the balls of the thumbs resting on either side the pit of the stomach, let the fingers fall into the grooves between the short ribs, so as to afford the best grasp of the waist. Now, using your knees as a pivot, throw all your weight forward on your hands, and at the same time squeeze the waist between them, as if you wished to force everything in the chest upward out of the mouth; deepen the pressure while you can count slowly, one, two, three; then suddenly let go with a final push, which springs you back to your first kneeling positicn. Remain erect on your knees while you can count, ond, two; then repeat the same motions as before, at a rate gradually increased from four or five to fifteen times in a minute, and continue thus this bellows movement with the same regularity that is observable in the natural motions of breathing, which you are imitating. Continue thus for from one to two hours, or until the patient breathes; for a while after carefully deepen the first short gasps into full breaths, and continue the drying and rubbing, which should have been unceasingly practiced from the beginning. As soon as the breathing has become established strip the patient, wrap him in blankets only, put him in a bed comfortably warm, but with a free circulation of fresh air and leave him to Eerfect rest If necessary, give a little ot brandy and water, or other stimulant at hand, for every ten or fifteen minutes for the first hour, and as often thereafter as may seem expedient.

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