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to be laid on a mattrass or bed before the 

 fire, but not too near, or in a moderately 

 heated room ; in warm and sultry weather 

 on a bed only. The body is then to be 

 wrapped as expeditiously as possible with 

 a blanket, and thoroughly dried with 

 warm coarse cloths or flannels. 4. In 

 summer or sultry weather, too much air 

 cannot be admitted. For this reason it 

 will be necessary to set open the win- 

 dows and doors, as cool refreshing air is 

 of the greatest importance in the process 

 of resuscitation. 5. Not more than six 

 persons are to be present to apply the 

 proper means j a greater number will be 

 useless, and may retard, or totally pre- 

 vent, the restoration of life, by rendering 

 the air of the apartment unwholesome. 

 It will be necessary, therefore, to request 

 the absence of those who attend merely 

 from motives of curiosity. 6 It will be 

 proper for one of the assistants, with a 

 pair of bellows of the common size, ap- 

 plying the pipe a little way up one nos- 

 tril, to blow with some force, in order to 

 introduce air into the lungs ; at the same 

 time the other nostril and the mouth are 

 to be closed by another assistant, whilst a 

 third person gently presses the chest with 

 his hands, after the lungs arc observed 

 to be inflated. By pursuing this process, 

 the noxious and stagnant vapours will be 

 expelled, and natural breathing imitated. 

 If the pipe of the bellows be too large, 

 the air may be blown in at the mouth, 

 the nostrils at the same time being clos- 

 ed, so that it may not escape that way : 

 but the lungs are more easily filled, and 

 natural breathing better imitated, by 

 blowing up the nostril. 7. Let the body 

 be gently nibbed with common salt, or 

 with flannels sprinkled with spirits, as 

 rum or geneva. A warming pan heated 

 (tlie body being surrounded with flan- 

 nel) may be lightly moved up and'down 

 the back. Fomentations of hot brandy 

 are to be applied to the pit of the sto- 

 m:ich, loins, &C-, and often renewed. 

 Bottles filled with hot water, heated tiles 

 covered with flannel, or hot bricks, may 

 be efficaciously applied to the soles of 

 the feet, palms of the hands, and other 

 parts of the body. The temples may be 

 rubbed with spirits of hartshorn, and the 

 nostrils now and then tickled with a fea- 

 ther; anil snuff, or eau de dice, should be 

 occasionally applied. 8. Tobacco fumes 

 should be thrown up the fundament : if 

 a fumigator be not at hand, the common 

 pipe may answer the purpose. The ope- 

 ration should be frequently performed, 

 as it is of importance ; for the good cf- 



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fects of this process have been experien- 

 ced in a variety of instances of suspended 

 animation. But should the application of 

 tobacco smoke in this way be not imme- 

 diately convenient, or other impediments 

 arise, clysters of this herb, or other acrid 

 infusions with salt, Stc. may be thrown up 

 with advantage. 9. When these means 

 have been employed a considerable time 

 without success, and any brewhouse or 

 warm bath can be readily obtained, the 

 body should be carefully conveyed to 

 such a place, and remain in the bath, or 

 surrounded with warm grains, for three 

 or four hours. If a child has been drown- 

 ed, its body should be wiped perfectly 

 dry, and immediately placed in abed be- 

 tween two healthy persons. The saluta- 

 ry effects of the natural vital warmth, 

 conveyed in this manner, have been prov- 

 ed in a variety of successful cases. 10. 

 While the various methods of treatment 

 are employed, the body is to be well 

 shaken every ten minutes, in order to 

 render the process of animation more 

 certainly successful ; and children, in par- 

 ticular, are to be much agitated, by tak- 

 ing hold of their legs and arms frequent- 

 ly, and for a continuance of time. In va- 

 rious instances, agitation has forwarded 

 the recovery of boys who have been 

 drowned, and continued for a considera- 

 ble time apparently dead. 11. If there 

 be any signs of returning life, such as 

 sighing, gasping, or convulsive motions, 

 a spoonful of any warm liquid may be 

 administered ; and if the act of swal- 

 lowing is returned, then a cordial in 

 warm brandy or wine may be given in 

 small quantities, and frequently repeat- 

 ed. 



DRUG, a general term for goods of 

 the druggist and grocery kinds, espe- 

 cailly for those used in medicine and 

 dving. 



" DRUGGET, in commerce, astuff some- 

 times all wool, and sometimes half wool 

 half thread, sometimes corded, but usual- 

 ly plain. Those that have the woof of 

 wool, and the warp of thread, are called 

 threaded druggets; and those wrought 

 with the shuttle on a loom of four march- 

 es, us the serges of Beauvois, and other 

 like stuffs, corded, arc culled corded 

 dniggcts. As to the plain, they are 

 wrought on a loom of two marches, with 

 the shuttle, in the same manner as cloth, 

 camlets, and other like stuffs, not cord- 

 ed. 



DRUIDS, the priests or ministers of re- 

 ligion of the ancient Britons and Gauls. 



The druids were chosen out of the best 



