274 •« drowned persons. yipril 25. 



I. By restoring the usual heat of the body. 



11^ By blowing air into the lungs, to afsist nature 

 in beginning anew the breathing. 



III. By rubbing the body, to promote the languid 

 circulation of the blood. And, 



IV. By the application of certain stimulating sub- 

 stances, to excite the inactive powers of life. 



The order in which the means of recovery lliould 

 be employed, will vary a little in different cases. When 

 the body is found, after having been a considerable 

 time in the water, or if it have become very cold, 

 the application of heat will be the best remedy to be- 

 gin with ; for before the ordinary temperature be 

 in a great measure restored, other remedies will be 

 used with lefs prospect of advantage. On the other 

 hand when the body has been but a few miniites sub- 

 mersed, and is not much chilled, blowing air into the 

 lungs, friction, and gentle stimulants Ihould be instant- 

 ly employed, because most likely to do good. A few 

 directions about using the means, and sonje cautious 

 about other matters follow. 



I. Heat. On getting the body, directly remove its 

 wet clothes, and wrap it in some dry covering, as the 

 fhirt and clothes of a person present, blankets, or the 

 like. If the body be then found sufllciently warm, 

 lose no time in using the other means, as directed af- 

 terwards ; but if it be cold, convey it gently in an 

 easy stretched posture, placed rather on its right sidf , 

 with its head somewhat supported, not greatly raised, 

 to a warm apartment in the nearest house. The bo- 

 dy may be placed in a warm bed, for the purpose of 

 applying heat to it, by the naked fkin of some per- 



