Description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead; as recommended ... by Mr. Charles Kite ... and approved by the London Humane Society / [Made] By John Savigny. [Written by C. Kite. Repr. from appendix to his 'Essay on the recovery of the apparently dead', 1788].

  • Savigny, J. (John)
Date:
1789
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Credit: Description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead; as recommended ... by Mr. Charles Kite ... and approved by the London Humane Society / [Made] By John Savigny. [Written by C. Kite. Repr. from appendix to his 'Essay on the recovery of the apparently dead', 1788]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] finger, he compreffes both noftrils fo firmly between the thumb and middle-finger of the fame hand, that no air can pafs otherwife than by the tube; and the other hand applying the other extremity of the tube to his mouth, he blows with force through the pipe into the poftril of the fubjedt. The medical director, ftanding at the right fide of his charge, muft keep the mouth perfectly clofed with his left hand, while with his right, making a fuitable preflure on the prominent part of the windpipe, he prevents the air pafimg into the flomach, till, finding the lungs are properly diftended, he is to prefs ftrongly upon the cheft, removing at the fame time his left hand from the mouth, fo as to let the air pafs out. When by thefe means the lungs are comprefled the fame procefs is immediately to be repeated, that, as near as can be, the manner of natural re- fpiration may be imitated.