2';6 on drownect persons. April 25.. 



tered as a person may be supposed to receive in com- 

 mon breathing, the blowing fhoulA be discontinued, 

 and gentle prefsure lliould be made upon the breast, 

 that the air may be discharged. The inflation is then, 

 to be immediately set about, after which the air is 

 again to be forced out by prefsure ; thus by alternate 

 inflation and expulsion of air, natural breathing is to. 

 be imitated. It is unnecefsary to hint that children, 

 will not require as much air to fill their lungs as a- 

 dults. This remedy ought to be continued for a very 

 considerable time, either till all hope be destroyed, 

 or till marks of recovery decidedly appear. These 

 marks are commonly imperfect and noisy breathing, ir- 

 regular pulsation of the heart and arteries, and per- 

 haps motion of some part of the body. The inflating 

 may be gradually discontinued as the recovery ad- 

 vances. 



Two particulars of some consequence may be at- 

 tended to during the procefs of inflation. 



I. Should a small quantity of thin liquor be pre- 

 sent in the wind-pipe, or the insi'de of the lungs, 

 which sometimes happens in drowning, it may be in 

 danger of continuing the suffocation, or of rendering 

 the attempts to renew breathing lefs eflScacious. It 

 will be proper, therefore, to turn the body on its 

 side or face, and then to raise it in such a manner 

 that the head may be low, and the fluid be discharged 

 when the air is expelled. But if no liquor run out, 

 or no Uttling noise indicate its presence, after ma- 

 king two or more trials to evacuate, it may be right 

 to desist from them. 



II. Farther, fhculd it be necefsary at any time to 

 interrupt the inilation for a few seconds, the lungs-- 



