treating Perfons affected by burning Charcoal. 329 
do not fucceed in reftoring to life thofe who have lain 
more than an hour in a ftate of infenfibility. 
The recovery is always attempted, and often effected, 
in this manner. They carry the patient immediately out 
of doors, and lay him upon the fnow, with nothing on 
him but a iliirt and linen drawers. His ftomach and tem- 
ples are then well rubbed with fnow, and cold water, or 
milk is poured down his throat. This friction is conti- 
nued with frefh fnow until the livid hue, which the body 
had when brought out, is changed to its natural colour, 
and life renewed; then they cure the violent head-ach 
which remains by binding on the forehead a cataplafm> 
of black rye bread, and vinegar. 
In this manner the unfortunate man is perfectly re- 
ftored, without blowing up the lungs, as is neceffary in 
the cafe of drowned perfons ; on the contrary, they be- 
gin to play of themfelves fo foon as the furcharge of 
phlogifton makes its efcape from the body. 
It is well worthy of obfervation, how diametrically 
oppofite the modes are of reftoring to life, thofe who 
are deprived of it by water, and thofe who have loft it 
by the fumes of charcoal : the one confifting in the inter- 
nal and external application of heat, and the other in that 
of cold. It may be alledged, that the ftimulus of the cold 
produces heat, and the facft feems to be confirmed by 
the Ruffian method of reftoring circulation in a frozen 
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