Reports of the Society, etc. Part II.

  • Royal Humane Society (London, England)
Date:
[1774]
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Credit: Reports of the Society, etc. Part II. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B I The Cafe following was communicated to Mr. Ricby Secretary to the Society, by Mr. Rofe, Surgeon $nd Apothecary, at Putney. Putney, Auguft 15, 1774. * &v, - 1 You’ll be pleafed to prefent my moft refpedtful compliments to the Gentlemen of the Society, and acquaint them I have, agreeable to their requeft, tranfmitted the method ufed in the recovery of John Beejley, a lad of 12 years of age, fon to a Ihoe- maker in Fulham. c Paffing over the bridge in my carriage on the 4th inft. about fix o’clock in the evening, I was flopped, and requefted to give my affiftance to a boy juft carried into the Swan alehoufe by the water fide, faid to be drowned. On my entrance, I found him lying on his face, and people rubbing him with fait. I immediately caufed him to he fet up, his head and ftioulders fupported, and took away 8 oZ. of blood from the arm, rubbed his face, neck. See. well with brandy, and continued the friction of fait: after fome time perfilting in this method, he fhewed figns of life. I then directed him to be put to bed betwixt the blankets, and attempted to get down fome brandy into the ftomach, but this was imprac¬ ticable. I then left him for the prefent, defiring the attendants to continue the fridtion of fait on the body and extremities, and the bathing of the face, (Ac. with the brandy, and to keep his head and fhoulders a little raifed. At nine o’clock the fame evening 1 called again, and found nature had juft then