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TREATMENT OF PERSONS 



When the signs of returning animation increase, 

 Richter directs us to remove the body from the 

 water, rub it with diluted brandy, and convey it 

 into a warmer situation. A diaphoretic drink is 

 then to be given, and as soon as the patient has 

 been well dried, he is to be put to bed, and re- 

 main there till he begins to sweat. 



Probably, these eminent surgeons may have 

 extended the principle too far, in directing the 

 body to be at first covered or rubbed with snow. 

 But, I think we have every reason to believe, 

 that their method of allowing the heat to be 

 communicated only by degrees, is most likely to 

 be conducive to recovery. We should also re- 

 collect, that Callisen and Richter lived in cold 

 northern countries, where correct information 

 respecting this particular subject might be more 

 easily attained than in Great Britain. The resi- 

 dence of the former at Stockholm, the capital of 

 a very cold country, and his acknowledged 

 talents and impartiality, seem to confer peculiar 

 importance upon the few remarks which he has 



