An enquiry into the causes of suspended animation from drowning : with the means of restoring life. by David Hosack, M.D.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1792
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    lows drowning, be well founded, that blood-letting is equally proper in the one cafe as in the other. Great caution, however, is to be obferved in the ufe of this remedy, left wo take away a greater quantity of blood than is fufficient to anfv/er the above intention, and run into the oppcfite extreme : to which lad circumftance I am in fome meafure dif- pofed to attribute the caufes of the objections which have been urged to this remedy. But to proceed to the fourth indication, viz. To reftore the tone and action of the brain and nervous fyflem^ or, in the words of Doctor Cullen, to reftore the tone and action of the moving fibre. This may be accom- plifhed by the following means:— ift. Stimulating applications to the furface of the body and extremities, fome of which have been already noticed. To thofe may be added, rubbing the wrifts and palms of the hands and lower extre- mities with fpirits of wine, hartfhorne, or, which perhaps is moft powerful, the fpirits of fu am- moniac. And, 2d. By exciting the action of the intcftinal canal, which may be done by, firft, pouring warm wine, the fpirits of fal ammoniac, or perhaps brandy with laudanum,* into theftomach-, the quantities of which * From the good effects of laudanum, (dpeciillj when given