Life-preserving manual, : comprising all the means most proper to be instantly adopted, ... with instructions and cautions calculated to prevent the occurrence of the most frequent and fatal accidents. / By S.G. Wilks, M.D.

  • Wilks, S. G.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Life-preserving manual, : comprising all the means most proper to be instantly adopted, ... with instructions and cautions calculated to prevent the occurrence of the most frequent and fatal accidents. / By S.G. Wilks, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFLATING THE LUNGS, oR ARTIFICIAL REs- PIRATION, in the following manner: One person taking his station at the head of the drowned body, is to introduce the small end of a hollow piece of wood, or of a card, or very stiff piece of paper or leather rolled up into the shape of a funnel and tied with a piece of twine, into either of the nostrils, and keep it fast there with the right hand, whilst with the left he carefully closes. up the other nostril and the mouth. A second person placed on the left side of the body must now endeavour to blow wind into the lungs, by putting into the wide end of the tube just men- tioned, the pipe of a pair of common bellows ; or if no bellows can be procured, by blowing with his breath into thenostril through a reed or quill, inserted in like manner, into the tube, with sufficient force to raise the chest. A third attendant, stationed on the right side of the body, in order to prevent any air from passing down the gullet and so into the stomach, should press the upper part of the wind-pipe gently back- ward with his left hand, keeping his right spread out upon the breast. As soon as the Lungs are filled with air, the first assistant is to unstop the mouth, and the third, to expel the air again by pressing moderately on the chest.