» AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. 199 
babe quite recovered, eager.to lay hold of the breaft, and able to'fuck again, ‘The 
child throve, had no.more fits, is grown up, and at prefent alive. There are many 
other things which might be done, in cafe the above fhould not fucceed ; as rubbing 
the body with ftrong {pirits, covering it with warm athes or falt, blowing air into 
the lungs, throwing up warm {timulating clyfters, or the fmoke of tobacco, into 
the. inteftines, and fuch-like. When children. are dead born, or expire foon after 
the birth, the fame means ought to be ufed for their recovery as if they had expired 
‘in circumftances fimilar to thofe mentioned above: Thefe direétions may likewife 
be extended to adults, attention being always paid to the age and other circum- 
ftances of the patient. The means ufed with fo much eficacy “in recovering 
drowned perfons are, with equal fuccefs, applicable to a number of cafes where the 
powers of life feem in reality to be only fufpended, and to remain capable of renew- 
‘ing all their. fun¢tions, on being put into motion again, Ir is thocking to reflea, 
that for want of this confideration many perfons have been committed to the grave, 
. inwhom the principles of life might have been revived. The cafes wherein fuch 
_ endeavours are moft likely to be attended with fuccefs, are. all thofe called fudden 
deaths from an invifible caufe, as apoplexies, hyfterics,, faintings, and many other 
diforders wherein perfons i in a moment fink down and expire. The, various cafual- 
ties in which they may be tried are, fuffocations from the fulphureous damps_of 
mines, coal-pits, &c. the unwholefome air of long-unopened wells or caverns; the 
- noxious vapours arifing from fermenting liquors; the fteams of burning charcoal; 
fulphyreous mineral acids; arfenical efluvia, &c. &c. 
Or COLD BATHING. 
_ IMMERSION: in cold water is a cuftom which lays claim to the moft remote 
snieaeiel indeed it muft have been coeval with man himfelf. The neceflity of 
_ - water for the purpofes of cleanlinefs, and the pleafure arifing from its application to 
- the body in hot countries, muft very early have recommended it to the human {pe- 
cies. Even the example of other animals was fufficientto give thehinttoman, By 
inftin& many of them are led to apply cold water in this mannet 5 and fome, when 
_ deprived of its ufé, have been known to languifh, and evento die. But whether the 
practice of cold bathing arofe from neceffity, reafoning, or imitation, is an inquiry of 
no importance; our bufinefs is to point out the advantages which may be derived 
from it, and to guard people againft an improper ufe of it, The cold bath recom- 
mends itfelf ina variety of cales ; and i is peculiarly beneficial to the inhabitants of : 
populous cities, who indulge in idlenefs and lead fedentary lives. In perfons of ch this 
defcription the aétion of the folids is always too nia aa aaa E i lacy 
¢ i apap 
“sepa @ crude mE Ec maf of humours, and obftru or ra rg og a 
on, ; 
OE 
