Some new hints, relative to the recovery of persons drowned with a view to render that practice more generally successful / by John Fuller.

Date:
1784
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Credit: Some new hints, relative to the recovery of persons drowned with a view to render that practice more generally successful / by John Fuller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    ting this procefs, continue the friction on the furface of the body through the blan- kets ; and when theic begin to grow cold, let them be exchanged for others kept ready warm: but this trouble, as well as cxpofing the b^dy to the cold air, may be faved, and the body fupplied with ar- tificial heat by running warm fmoothing- irons along the outfidc of the blankets. Great care ought to be taken that the blankets do not touch th<f ground while fparks of fire arc drawing off, and that the feet and axilla* arc kept very warm with heated bricks or bottles filled with warm water. The artificial heat of the body ought to be fupported in as equal a manner as poffiblc. While thefc things are going on, flimuUting glyflcrs nlay be adminificred, and ibinc warm wine of warm brandy and water may be poured into the fiomach in tlio manner direded by tlic