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endeavours prove ineffectual, clyfters of the fmoke of tobacco may be tried. Thefe 
have been often known to fucceed where every other method failed. An adult, af. 
ter the gut has been returned, muit wear a fteel bandage. It is needlefs to de- 
feribe this, as it may always be had ready-made from the artifts. Such bandages — 
are generally irkfome to the wearer for fome time, but.by cuftom they become quite 
éaly. No perfon who has had-a rupture after he arrived at man’s eftate fhould ever 
be without one of thefe bandages. Perfons who have a rupture ought carefully to 
avoid all violent exercife, carrying great weights, leaping, running, and the like. 
They fhould likewife avoid windy aliment and ftrong liquors; and fhould carefully 
guard againtt catching cold. 
Or RECOVERING DROWNED PERSONS, ~ 
WHEN 4 perfon has remained above a quarter of an hour under water, there can 
be no confiderable hopes of recovery. But, as feveral circumftances may happen 
to have continued life, in fuch an unfortunate fituation, beyond the ordinary term, 
we fhould never too foon trefign the unhappy object to his.fate, but try every me- 
-thod for his relief, as there are many well-attefted proofs of the recovery of perfons — 
to life and health who had been taken out of the water apparently dead, and who 
remained a confiderable time without exhibiting any figns of life. The firft thing 
to be done, after the body is taken out of the water, is to convey it, as foon as pof- 
fible, to fome convenient place where the neceflary operations for its recovery may 
be performed. In attempting to recover perfons apparently drowned, the principal 
intention to be purfued is, to reftore the natural warmth, upon which all the vital 
_ fundtions depend ; and to excite thefe functions by the application of ftimulants, 
not only to the fkin, but likewife to the lungs, inteftines, &c. Though cold was by 
ho means the caufe of the perfon’s death, yer it will prove an effectual obftacle to his 
‘recovery. For this reafon, after ftripping him of his wet clothes, his body muft be 
rongly rubbed for a confiderable time with coarfe linen cloths, as warm as they can 
bet '; and, as foon as a well-heated bed can be got ready, he may be laid in it, 
and the rubbing fhould be continued. ‘Warm cloths ought likewife to be frequent- 
ly ap ) the ftomach and bowels, and hot bricks, or bottles of warm water, to 
the fol : feet, and to the palms of the hands. Strong volatile fpirits fhould be 
-applied to the nofe; and the fpine of the back and pit of the ftomach 
ith warm brandy or fpirit of wine. The temples ought always to 
be chafed with volatile fpirits; and ftimulating powders, as that of tobacco or mar- 
joram, may be blown up the noftrils. To renew the breathing, a ftrong perfon may 
blow his own breath into the patient’s mouth with all the force he can, holding his 
hoftrils at the fame time. “When it can be perceived, by the rifing of the cheft or 
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