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Credit: [Domestic medicine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![6 2 2 down will only ferve to fix itfafter in. In this cafe the belt way is to make the patient vomit, either by tickling his throat with a feather, or giving him a vomit. I have frequently known pins which had ftuck in the gullet for feveral clays, brought up by fwallowing a bit of tough meat tied to a ftrong thread, and drawing it quickly up again. All hard or fliarp fubllances, which might hurt or wound the bowels, ought, if poffible to be difcliarged upwards. Subitances that wnl diffolve in theftomach, it they cannot be broug up, may be puflied down. When a mouthful o folidfood flops in the gullet, it may 0 ™ forced up by giving the perfon a blow on the back betwixt the fhoulders. 11 this ihould not fucceed, the throat may be tickled with the n- eer or a feather: 1 lately faw a halfpenny,which u H n fait in the gullet .of a boy about eight years old, thrown up by only thrulling a linger down his throat misf0rtune to fall Persons who given up for dead, when into the water aie often g u be re. itiSCirnTtyg^t intention which ihould covered. g the natural warmth, bedkerenewV1thT ir^l and ^ TW and renew rhe raufe of the perfon s cold is by no ' “(“prove an effeclual obitacle to death, yet i ^ P ^ reaion_ atter ftripping his recovery. ;f ]1C had any on when SalaTnUiappened/his body muft be fliong.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721890_0640.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
