DRU 
common salt, or with flannels, sprinkled 
with spirits, as rum or geneva. A warming 
pan heated (the body being surrounded 
witli flannel) may be lightly moved up and 
down the back. Fomentations of hot 
bmudy are to be applied to the pit of the 
stomach, 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 feather ; and snuft’, 
or eau de luce, should be occasionally ap- 
plied. 8. Tobacco fumes should be thrown 
up the fundament : if a fumigator be not 
at hand, the common pipe may answer the 
purpose. The operation should be fre- 
quently performed, as it is of importance ; 
for the good effects of this process have 
been experienced in a variety of instances 
of suspended animation. But should the 
application of tobacco smoke in this way 
not be immediately convenient, or other 
impediments arise, clysters of this herb, 
or other acrid infusions with salt, &c. may 
be thrown up with advantage. 9. When 
these means have been employed a consi- 
derable time without success, and any 
brewhouse or warm bath can be readily ob- 
tained, the body should be carefully con- 
veyed to such a place, and remain in the 
bath, or surrounded with warm grains, for 
three or four hours. If a child has been 
drowned, its body should be wiped per- 
fectly dry, and immediately placed in bed 
between two healthy persons. The salutary 
effects of the natural vital warmth, con- 
veyed in this manner, have been proved in 
a variety of successful cases. 10. While 
the various methods of treatment are em- 
ployed, the body is to be well shaken every 
ten minutes, in order to render the process 
of animation more certainly successful ; 
and children in particular, are to be much 
agitated, by taking hold of their legs and 
arms, frequently and for a continuance of 
time. In various instances agitation has 
forwarded the recovery of boys who have 
been drowned, and continued for a consi- 
derable time apparently dead. 11. If there 
be any signs of returning life, such as sigh- 
ing, gasping, or convulsive motions, a spoon- 
ful of any warm liquid may be administered ; 
and if the act of swallowing is returned, 
then a cordial of warm brandy or wine 
may be given in small quantities, and fre- 
quently repeated. 
DRU 
DRUG, a general term for goods of the 
druggist and grocery kinds, especially for 
those used in medicine and dying. 
DRUGGET, in commerce, a stuff some- 
times all wool, and sometimes half wool 
half thread, some times corded, but usually 
plain. Those that have the woof of wool, 
and the warp of thread, are called threaded 
druggets ; and those wrought with the shut- 
tle on a loom of four marches, as the serges 
of Beauvois, and other like stuffs, corded, 
are called corded druggets. As to the 
plain, they are wrought on a loom of two 
marches, with the shuttle, in the same man- 
ner as cloth, camlets, and other like stuffs, 
not corded. 
DRUIDS, the priests or ministers of re- 
ligion of the ancient Britons, and Gauls. 
The druids were chose out of the best fa- 
milies ; and were held, both by the honours 
of their birth and their office, in the great- 
est veneration. They are said to have un- 
derstood astrology, geometry, natural his- 
tory, politics, and geography : they had the 
administration of all sacred things, were 
the interpreters of religion, and the judges 
of all affairs indifferently. 
Whoever refused obedience to them, was 
declared impious and accursed ; they held 
the immortality of the soul, arrd the me- 
tempsychosis ; they .are divided by some 
into several classes ; they had a chief, or 
arch-druid in every nation : he was a sort 
of high-priest, having an absolute authority 
over the rest, and was succeeded by the 
most considerable among his survivors. 
The youth used to be instructed by them, 
refiling with them to caves and desolate 
forests, where they were sometimes kept 
twenty years. They preserved the rnemor-y 
and actions of great men by their verses ; 
but ai’e said to have sacrificed men to Mer- 
cury. Csesar imagined that the druids came 
from Britain into Gaul, but several among 
the modern writers are of a different opinion. 
DRUM, is a military musical instrument 
in form of a cylinder, hollow within, and 
covered at the two ends with vellum, which 
is stretched or slackened at pleasure by 
the means of small cords and sliding knots. 
It is beat upon with sticks. Some drum.s 
are made of brass, but they are commonly 
of wood. There are several beats of the 
drum, as assembly, chamade, reveilld, re- 
treat, '&c. 
Drum of fJie ear. See Anatomy. 
'Drums, kettle, are two sorts of large ba- 
sons of copper or brass, rounded in the 
bottom, and covered witli vellum or goat- 
