462 
This (though it have not been hereto- 
fere recommended) is best and most 
speedily accomplished by a tepid bath 
(of 98° Fahrenheit); for without this tem- 
perature, the vital functions cannot go 
om. Stimulants have, with this view, 
been generally applied to the skin and 
kunys, and even to the intestines. In 
the last case it is usual to strip the pa- 
tient of all his wet clothes, rub him per- 
fecitly dry, whilst severai assistants are 
warming blankets; and when dry,he is 
directed to be laid upon a. table, with 
two blankets under him; a third is wrapt 
round his body, and should be removed, 
when it loses to any considerable degree 
its original warmth. This operation 1s to 
be repeated, unul signs of recovery be- 
evume apparent. While this process 
goes on, at least four assistants are em- 
ployed in rubbing the legs and arms. 
Neutral saline bodies, and especially 
eommon salt has been used at the time, 
and in aid of friction; but if, ina che- 
saical polit of view, we are at a loss 
to see how it operates, most probably 
warm ashes, or any similar substance, by 
its mere isechanical power, and tempe- 
ature, Inay aNswer every purpose. 
Whilst this is going forward, a dilute 
solution of ammonia is apphed to his: 
wrists and ancles (for a strong: solution 
of the Ag. ummon: pur. would have a 
tendency actually to dissolve the epi- 
dermis, and even the vera cutis itself, in 
many cases, 
havtshorn is. consequently often em- 
ployed; anda feather steeped im it is to 
be applied every ten minutes to the nos- 
trils ; bladders of hot water, 1m this case, 
to tne feet and armpits have an impor- 
tant value. Others havé found much 
advantage by dipping a blanket into 
boiling water, wringing the same as dry 
as possible, and wrapping the patient 
closely up init, when undressed. This 
is recommended to be repeated eve- 
ry teo immutes, for two or three 
hours. ae 
~ But whilst these external applications 
of restoring heat to the body are going — 
forward, internal means of rousing the 
keart and arterial system to action, 
must not be neglected ‘This is material, 
both with a view to the maintenance of 
a tit decree of animal heat, and to the 
support of the nervous system itself. 
¥Yhe smoke of tobacco, or other sti- 
mulants, appiled by way of clyster, and 
air passed through the nostrils into the 
kanvs; are employed with success occa- 
sionally. But exygenous gas, from a suit- 
Use of Galvanism far restoring 
The ordinary spirit of - 
[Jane t,. 
able pneumatic apparatus, or, what is still’ 
better, the nitrous oxide, right be used 
with still greater advantage; if we’ cal- 
culate upon their effects en the human 
body ‘being analogous to those they 
usually produce upon animals that have 
been drowned, or suffocated, by the de- 
leterious effects consequent to the inha- 
Jation of hydrogen gas, curbonie acid, 
carburetied hydrogen, sulphureous acid 
Gus, nitrous ai, or the compounder gases, 
consututmg the chaak and fire dumps, 
with other deleterious vapours. But it 
Is to be lamented, that, however impor- 
tant these means are, and however effi. . 
cacious they promise to be, still they are 
seldom used in aid of other means pro- 
bably at hand, and usually recommended 
1 Cases of suspended animation, It is 
desirable, that im every situation where 
there jis a hfe-boat kept, such an 
apparatus as would at once yield these 
valuable gases, should be its companion. 
It is usual in the injection of the fumes 
of tobacco, to have a common clysters 
hag, aud at the other end have a com- 
non tobaccu-pipe, firmly attached to it. 
The bowl of the pipe is to be filled with 
tobacco, and well lighted; then by ap.. 
~plying a playing~card,- formed im the 
shape of a funnel, round the bow! of the 
tovacto-pipe, and blowing with the 
mouth at the other end, the bag may be 
fiHed with smoak; and this may be in- 
Jected into the intestines, by simply filling 
and eompressing the bag or containing 
bladder. For throwing air into the 
lungs, the stem of a common tobaccom 
pipe may answer. This should be in. 
troduced into one of the nostrils, and at 
he same time the other is to be closed 
by a finger, as well as the mouth. Blow 
pretty strongly. When the lungs are 
full, by pressure on the breast the air 
may be forced from the Jungs again. 
This process should be continued for at 
least half an hour. It is usual to admi- 
mister the tobacco-fumes, and the infla- 
tion of the lunys alternately, but there is 
no good reason, why the operations should 
not proceed together. And it is re- 
commended, that these processes be 
persevered in, even for hours, although 
no signs of life appear. 
At the same time that we do not deny 
to these methods their respective por- 
tions of merit, we cannot help adverting 
to the general value of electricity in 
cases of this nature. But ithas been too 
frequently a subject of regret, that the 
objection to its employment depends 
upon the incompatibility of its excita 
tiuDy 
