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

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    2d. Want of vital air, and perhaps more or lefs collapfe of 1 A congeftion of blood m the heart, lungs, brain, &c. and thereby univer- sal debility, followed with the lungs. a fufpenfion of the vita] principle. Indications of Recovery. i ft. By placing it before afire. 2d. Expofing it to the fun. 3d. Heat of ano- ther perfon's body. 4th. - _ n , Warm bath,warm grains, ft. To reftore heat ° )-afhes, fand, or warm fait. 5th. Friction with warm cloths. 6th. By applying warm bricks, bottles of warm water, or bags of warm fait to the feet. to the body. 2d. To reftore the re- fpiration,& there- by communicate y pure air to the blood. By artificial refpiration, to be done directly by the mouth, or by a tube inferted in one of the nof- trils ; or, laftly, by pafs- ing a tube into the wind- pipe, and then annexing a bellows. 3d. To