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in a carriage upon straw, lying aa on a bed, with the 

 head a little raised, and kept in as natural and easy 

 a position as possible. 



The body, being well dried with a cloth or flannel, 

 should be placed in a moderate degree of heat, but 

 not too near a large fire. The window or door of the 

 room should be left open, and no more persons ad- 

 mitted into it, than those who are absolutely neces- 

 sary, as the lives of the patients greatly depend upon 

 their having the benefit of the pure air. The warmth 

 most promising of success, is that of a bed or blanket 

 well heated: bottles of hot water, laid at the bottoms 

 of the feet, to the joints of the knees, and under the 

 arm- pits 7 and a warming-pan, moderately heated, 

 or hot bricks, wrapped in cloths, should be passed 

 over the body. The natural and kindly warmth of a 

 healthy person lying by the side of the body, has been 

 found, in some cases, particularly of children, very 

 efficacious. 



Should the accident happen in the neighbourhood 

 of a warm-bath, brewhouse, bakehouse, glasshouse, or 

 any fabric where warm lees, ashes, embers, grains, 

 sand, water, ^c. are easily procured, it would be of 

 i^reat importance to place the body in any of these, 

 moderated to a degree of heat little exceeding that of 

 a healihv person ; or, in Summer, the exposure to sun- 

 shine has been proved obviously beneficial. Friction 

 with the himd, or with warm flannel or coarse cloth, so 

 as not to injure the skin, should also be tried with 

 perseverance, for a considerable period of time. 

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