The physiology, pathology, and treatment of asphyxia : including suspended animation in new-born children, and from drowning, hanging, wounds of the chest, mechanical obstructions of the air-passages, respiration of gases, death from cold, &c. &c. / by James Phillips Kay.

  • Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips, Sir, 1804-1877.
Date:
1834
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Credit: The physiology, pathology, and treatment of asphyxia : including suspended animation in new-born children, and from drowning, hanging, wounds of the chest, mechanical obstructions of the air-passages, respiration of gases, death from cold, &c. &c. / by James Phillips Kay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    » 328 some time the process went on prosperously; when at last one of the workmen dropped his bucket into the pit. A ladder being procured, he immediately proceeded to descend, and would not wait to be tied with ropes. ‘ But hardly,’ says Halle, ‘ had he descended a few steps of the ladder when he tumbled down without a cry, and was overwhelmed in the ordure below, without making the slightest effort to save himself. It was at first thought he had slipped his foot, and another workman promptly offered to descend for him. Tli is man was secured with ropes in case of accident. But scarcely had he descended far enough to have his whole person in the pit except his head, when he uttered a suppressed cry, made a violent effort with his chest, slipped from the ladder, and ceased to move or breathe. His head hung down on his breast, the pulse was gone; and this complete state of Asphyxia was the affair of a moment. Another workman descended with the same precautions, fainted away in like manner, but was so promptly withdrawn that the Asphyxia was not complete, and he soon revived. At last a stout young man, secured in the same way as the rest, also went down a few steps. Finding himself seized like his companions, he re-ascended to recover himself for a moment ; and still not discouraged, he resolved to go down