36^ THE angler's guide. 



The subject being placed in one or other of these 

 advantageous circumstances as speedily as possible, a 

 bellows should be applied to one nostril, whilst the 

 other nostril and the mouth are kept closed, and the 

 lower end of the prominent part of the wind-pipe is 

 pressed backward. "The bellows is to be worked in 

 this situation ; and when the breast is swelled by it, 

 the bellows should stop, and an assistant should press 

 the belly upwards to force the air out. The bellows 

 should then be applied as before, and the belly again 

 pressed ; this process should be repeated from twenty 

 to thirty times in a minute, so as to imitate natural 

 breathing as nearly as possible ; as the trachea is al- 

 ways open through the glottis, air conveyed through 

 the mouth, the nostrils being closed, would necessa- 

 rily pass into the lungs. If the cartilages of the lar- 

 nyx (throat) be pressed against the vertebrae, (bones 

 of the neck) so as to close the aesophagus, (gullet) 

 and prevent the passage of the air into the stomach 5 

 and, at the sajne time, the mouth and left nostril 

 be closed, and the pipe of the bellows inserted into 

 the right nostril, the air will pass into the lungs 

 through the wind-pipe, because that is the only 

 opening through which it can pass 3 its passage into 

 the aesophagus, or its egress through the mouth or 

 left nostril, being prevented in the manner above 

 described," 



If there be any signs of returning life, such as sigh- 

 ing, gasping, twitching, or any convulsive motions, 

 beating of the heart, the return of the natural colour 



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