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the animal heat. Wrap in warm blankets, apply bottles of hot water, hot 

 bricks, etc., to aid the restoration of heat. Warm the head nearly as fast as 

 the body, lest convulsions come on. Rubbing the body with warm cloths or 

 the hand, and gently slapping the fleshy parts, may assist to restore warmth, 

 and the breathing also. 



IX. When the patient can swallow, give hot coffee, tea, milk, or a little 

 hot sling. Give spirits sparingly, lest they produce depression. Place the pa- 

 tient in a warm bed, give him plenty of fresh air, and keep him quiet. 



X. Let all the work be done deliberately and patiently, and do not give 

 Up too quickly ,"f or success,"says the Massachusetts society, "has rewarded the 

 efforts of hours." 



Remarks.— These rules cannot be too well understood (where it is possible 

 for such accidents to occur), and no delicacy of mind or circumstances should 

 prevent anyone from taking right hold of any case that may occur, because 

 they have not done it before. No time to await the arrival of a physician- 

 immediate action will insure success. 



Let good judgment and great carefulness be exercised by everyone who 

 finds himself called upon to act in any accident of this kind, and let no one 

 hesitate a moment to do the best he can till some one more acquainted with the 

 work, or a physician, may arrive, as life is too precious to allow of anyone 

 neglecting to do what he can to save it. 



2. Drowned Persons— A Case in Hand.— I will make a condensed 

 statement here of a ease reported in the New York Mail and Express, in 1882, 

 to show what perseverance did in resuscitating a boy, by one of the officers 

 of one of the life saving stations, who, with the reporter, happened to be pass- 

 ing along one of the wharves of that city, where a number of fishing vessels 

 were tied, upon one of which was a boy who had been under water for 10 min- 

 utes, or more, and had lain as much longer upon the deck witliout an effort to 

 .restore him to life, and the bystanders, and even the police present, thought he 

 was really dead; but the life-saving man took a different view of it, and went 

 to work with a will; first opening the boy's mouth and removing the mud from 

 it, he turned him over, on his face, and placed his coat, done up as a pillow, 

 under the boys stomach, tlien took hold of the boy's ankles and raised them 

 several feet above the boy's head, and put them into the hands of some of the 

 bystanders, to keep them thus, he pressed gently, but firmly, upon the small of 

 the boy's back, when immediately a stream of water gushed out of his mouth, 

 which had all this time been in the lungs, waiting only for this treatment to 

 help it out. This was continued a minute or two, to get out all the water be 

 oould, when he was turned upon his back, and the officer, kneeling over him, 

 put one hand upon the boy's right side, the other on the left, just against the 

 ijhort ribs, he gave them a powerful compression, and then suddenly let gc, the 

 vibs springing back to their natural position, and the air rushed into the lung*; 

 this was done a dozen or more times, but still no appearance of life, and tin 

 bystanders said to him: " Can't you let a drowned boy alone;" "why," says Oie 

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