Preservative plan; or, hints for the preservation of persons exposed to those accidents which suddenly suspend or extingui[s]h vital action, and by which many valuable lives are prematurely lost to the community / by A. Fothergill.

  • Anthony Fothergill
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Preservative plan; or, hints for the preservation of persons exposed to those accidents which suddenly suspend or extingui[s]h vital action, and by which many valuable lives are prematurely lost to the community / by A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    t u ] The application is obvious. Therefore, fhould an invidious fpark dart on any part of their tindered muflin attire, or the flaming taper fuddenly feize their golTamer caps, their nodding plumes, or their flowing ringlets, let both their hands (for, not a moment is to be loft) inftantly become at once the damper and extinguiflier. Were a wet towel or handkerchief luckily in readinefs, it might, as a damper, help to {pare the extinguiflier its painful office. But, where this timely precaution is negledled, and the flame has already made confiderable advances over a large furface, the attendants, without ceremony, muft inftandy cover the part with the hearth-rug, or, rather, wrap up the whole body clofe in the carpet or oil-cloth, till a fervant can arrive with water, which muft be poured on in abundance, or what would be preferable, a folution of wood-afhes from the ley-tub. 8. To allay the pain and anguifh, and prevent the fkin of the inflamed parts from ftripping off, the furface fliould be firft bathed with brandv, camphorated fpirits, or sether, all which, from their fpeedy evaporation, give prefent eafe, and create a pleafing fenfe of coolnefs. Afterwards, fprinkled with cold vinegar for half an hour fucceflively, or conveyed in gentle fprays from a watering-pot. The application of fnow (at a feafon when it is to be had) might probably prove ftill more efficacious. Stroke