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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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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    C 4<> ] f6ugh medicine, muft be hazarded, which, at this juncture, would infallibly exafperate the fymptoms. / 4. On the contraryj the violent commotion of body and mind muft be fuffered to fubfide, and the lymptoms allayed by the moft lenient remedies, elpecially thofe of a compofing kind, fuch as mild opiates, or Hoffman’s Anodyne Liquor. 5. To guard againft a return of the fufpenfion which might prove fatal, not Only the objeft which occaftoned it, but every other conneftcd with ity which, by affociation, may tend to rekindle tHc paffion, muft be kept perfedtly out of fight, and the mind foothed, by the charms of mufic or poetry^ till reafon relumes the helm. 6. The fyncope, which fuddenly fupervenes violent haemorrhages, malignant fevers, of fea-fcurvy, demand the like lenient treatment and precaution as to powerful ftimulants. Premature Burial. In this, and every cafe of apparently premature death, where no gradation of difeafe has preceded, more than ordinary precaution ought to be taken againft premature burial, a circumftance that has fbmetimes happened, and of which fome affefting inftances