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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![diac pulsation, because the valves all open in the direction of the venous current. In the baby whose case I report, however, the heart beats were regular though very feeble. With renewed thanks, I remain respectfully yours, JOS. G. EICHARDSOK The following letter was received to-day from one of the best known medical men of our navy, to whom the drown- ing of men is a familiar f)henomenon. When such men give their minds to a subject something valuable will be sure to come of it. The request of a gentleman in his position, es- pecially addressed in such, a polite, scholarly, and thought- ful a manner as that which graces this letter, is equivalent to a command with which, it will be a pleasure to comply : Dr. T. S. Lambert, Dear Sir :—Taking much interest in your letters recently pub- lished in the New York Evening Post, and noticed in the 'papers of this city, on the possible resuscitation of persons after being recov- ered from the water, apparently dead by drowning, and the means you suggest for restoring consciousness. I desire to become better acquainted with your views in that connection. It has been repeat- edly asserted by persons who have narrowly escaped drowning, that the sensation experienced upon the approach of unconsciousness, and of muscular exhaustion, was almost painless, and those who have been restored after becoming unconscious assert that while in the water they suffered but little pain and no agony, except that accom- panying the fear of death during the first moments of their strug- gles. There can be no doubt that the glottis [the opening from the windpipe into the throat,] is closed' the moment that the mouth can be no longer kept above water. Will not, however, the glottis be again opened, and water enter the larynx when it is beyond the power of the drowning person to longer hold his breath, and when relaxation has taken place ? One and a half minutes is a long time for a healthy person, in a calm state, to hold his breath, and taking](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21062961_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
