A dissertation on suspended respiration, from drowning, hanging, and suffocation: : in which is recommended a different mode of treatment to any hitherto pointed out. / By Edward Coleman, surgeon.

  • Edward Coleman
Date:
MDCCXCI. [1791]
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Credit: A dissertation on suspended respiration, from drowning, hanging, and suffocation: : in which is recommended a different mode of treatment to any hitherto pointed out. / By Edward Coleman, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eye. ] a free paflage, and air to impart to it -its due ftimulus and heat; the blood thus duly. changed, will, by means of the collapfe, excite the left to get rid of its burden, and furnith it with a frefh fupply endued with the proper {timulus. 86. That if no electrical apparatus be in readinefs, we fhould then alter our \ method of artificial refpiration. 87. That.the lungs fhould be diltended, and after allowing a {mall quantity of air to e{cape, the infpiration fhould be repeated ; and this procefs of faffering, after each inflation, a little air to efcape, (or, in other words, imitating natural refpiration) fhould be continued about a minute, when we are to exhauft the lungs; fo that there fhould be» but one complete ‘expiration here to feveral infpirations.