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state of insensibility, after breathing foul air, he must be 

 iminediately taken into the open air, and in a current, 

 if possible, and after obliging every one to withdraw, ex- 

 cept those affording him assistance, he is to be stripped, 

 and two or three buckets of water dashed over him, and 

 some of it in his face, his body well rubbed, and his 

 lungs inflated in the following mode : — Insert the tube 

 of a common pair of bellows into one nostril, so as to 

 fill it completely, the other and the mouth being closed : 

 then force air into the lungs by using the bellows, and 

 during the intervals of the different inflations, the air will 

 escape by the mouth or other nostril, and when the lungs 

 are so evacuated, the inflation is to be repeated. To 

 prevent the air from passing into the stomach, a hand 

 should press the windpipe against the gullet. When 

 the breathing is restored, and the heart beats, the person 

 should be put into a warm bath, or a warm bed, and 

 frictions continued. If a disposition to vomit appear, it 

 is to be encouraged by drafts of warm water. On no 

 account must the suflferer be bled. 



Remitting Fever ^ or Bilious Fever, — Where the dis- 

 ease is preceded by the usual symptoms, as languor, loss 

 of appetite, and head-ache, it often may be prevented by 

 a gentle emetic and purge, avoiding meat, and the as- 

 sistance of rest, a warm bath, or loathing the feet in \varmi 

 water at night. When the fever and head-ache are se- 

 vere, twelve ounces of blood should be taken away. 

 The operation should be repeated after a few hours, if 

 the pain do not abate. Cool drink may be freely taken. 

 Avoid sweating by heating remedies, in the commence- 

 ment of the complaint. The diseased and increased ac- 

 tion of the system must always be reduced, before sweat- 

 ing be attempted. The vessels will then pour out their 

 fluids freely, when necessary, by the aid of warm diluting 

 drinks, and of such medicines as are know^n to determine 



