They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert.
- Lambert, T. S. (Thomas Scott), 1819-1897
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert. 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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![case less easily managed, and the result more doubtful than simple drowning would be. These complications very much prolong the time needed for the reanimation of the suspend- ed life—hours may be required where minutes would be suf- ficient in mere drowning. This will, in part at least, and probably in great part, account for the great variation of the length of time required for restoration in different cases, in which there is no difference in the coldness of the bodies. Most of those efforts which have been successful have occu- pied but a little time. Others have required an hour, two hours and a half, six hours, eight hours, and eight hours and a half, which is the longest time, to my knowledge, used successfully for the restoration of a suffocated person. If that time and labor had, if necessary, been bestowed upon every iDerson drowned or otherwise suffocated, how many would have been restored no one can say. Certainly many would have been, while perhaps even a longer time was needed to restore some who were restorable. As we cannot tell, unless there is some obvious injury, who is restorable and who is not, who is simply drowned, and in whom there are com]plications, perhaps rendering every labor fruitless, the plain course is to labor faithfully and hopefully to re- store each and every one who becomes inanimate otherwise than by disease or by some deadly injury. The reward will seldom be more or other than one's own self-respect and con- sciousness of having performed a duty, since accidents usual- ly happen to those having only thanks to give ; yet is not that self-reward the very richest that a true man can enjoy. THE THKEE QUESTIONS. Let the three questions, which everybody asks, be now conclusively settled. j^ii-st—A person once dead cannot be restored by heat, nor](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21062961_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
