The institution of the Merrimack Humane Society : with the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead from drowning or injured by accidents.

  • Merrimack Humane Society
Date:
1880
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Credit: The institution of the Merrimack Humane Society : with the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead from drowning or injured by accidents. 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.

    18/44 page 12
    TO BE STORE BREATHING. [Instead of tlie older methods of artificial respiration l-cnown as Marshall Hall's and Sylvester's, which are not so easy of execution as the ra^hod subjoined, or so rational, the Direct Method, first proposed by Dr. Benjamin Howard and adopted by the Royal Hu- mane Society, and Life SavingSociety of New York, is here given.] EuLE 1. To drain and force vKiterfrom the Limgs and Stom- ach. Fi&.-<1. Instantly place the patient face downward, a hard roll of clotiiing being placed beneath the pit of the stomach to raise it as much as possible above the level of the mouth. Put one wrist of the patient under the forehead to raise the mouth from the ground. With hands well spread upon the patient's bade, above the roll of clothing, throw upon it your whole weight with a forward motion, and keep the pressure about three seconds, so as to force all water from stomach and lungs out of the mouth, ending the pressure with a push which
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