Accidents and emergencies : amanual of the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of a physician / by Charles W. Dulles.

  • Dulles, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), 1850-1921.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Accidents and emergencies : amanual of the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of a physician / by Charles W. Dulles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tery, used so as to bring about reflex sobbing, or deep breathing, by the pain it causes. Success in these efforts is recognized when, little by little, natural breathing takes the place of the arti- ficial ; but this must not be left unwatched or unas- sisted for some time. Nothing but danger from cold, or pressing neces- sity, should prompt the removal from one place to another of a person who is being resuscitated, before this has been thoroughly accomplished. If removal can not be avoided, it must be effected with great care. After resuscitation, the person should be put in a warm bed, being carried carefully, with the head low; and a watch should be kept to see that the breathing does not suddenly stop. Where natural breathing has not ceased, all the steps just described should be carried out, with the exception of artificial respiration. But this should be had recourse to upon the first evidence that nat- ural respiration is failing. Strangulation, by hanging or by any constric- tion of the windpipe from the outside, is to be treated by re-establishing the respiration in the same way as for drowning. The obstruction is, of course, to be removed and natural respiration must be stimu- lated or artificial respiration must be employed.^ *The Philadelphia Press, September 19, 1884, published a report from Pittsburg that a man had been found hanging by a clothesline in an out- house of the Crescent Steel Works the day before. He was discovered by