Show I I Secrets of Health and Happiness I How to Give First Aid Aidin in in Cases of Suffocation i iBy By Bin y DR LEONARD KEENE HIRSCHBERG A A. B. B M JL L A. A M 1 D. D Johns Hopkins HE soul Is IsId said Id to sit elt closely and silently within T THE the web neb eb of or the tho human textile From the very en fibers of ot the flesh It spins and you ou feel eel the touch and e el every l' l br breath of ot motion round about You are positive that you ou are you and f r nobody else and on this certainty the most necessary and fundamental of all aU certainty you ou tl try your our utmost fo Eo o keep bod body and soul together There Is IR an extraordinary stability In the attachment between the living form and the vital spirit within The Tho I Imal tendency to adhere Is so o Inborn that mankind may be bemal bemal mal treated with quack medicines mixtures talismans tails talis pit Die mans laying on of ot hands superstitions and traditions and yet et survive l to praise fallaciously and spread the gospel of efficacy That ThatIs Is to sa say he still lives es and anel has hils his b being ninety times In the tho hundred and wrongly ascribes It to the tho herbs the potions or tho unguents used Yet all tho the while whilo It was the tenacity of the tho soul to stick to the trenches despite the tho onslaught of a a. triple enemy nem the wrong drug tho the genial doctor and the tho dire disease Luckily the tho life Ure and growth of the whole human race do not alwa always s 's de depend depend do- do pend upon tho the doctors doctor's doing something something some some- thin thing Emergencies are aro often met metIn metIn metIn In the absence of ot the medical police pollee Do Not Delay All AU of th these se facts and a few tew others are emphasized hy by Dr Charles A A. A Laufter the medical director of or the Westinghouse Electric company In I his researches upon shock drowning I and asphyxiation a from any an cause Suffocation ma may have e many other origins Ins than gas poisoning and drowning If It the blood and tissues arc are In any manner wanting In tho the air and oxygen necessary to keep life In Inthe inthe the tho human fabric whether It be from gasoline fumes In a 0 garage fire damp In tn a mine ammonia In an Ice plant vapors from a n blast furnace water In a n. river an nn el electric shock bad air In a 0 bank vault nult or coal gas something some somo- thin thing must be done don Immediately There Is Ie no reason to d delay laY until a medical man a 0 policeman or a n hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital orderly reaches tho the victim That brief interval once elapsed ma may bridge the gulf between life lite and death Charon will lose no time In ferrying across the tho Styx If It you watt walt too long to resuscitate te the shocked poisoned or 01 drowned one Anyone alone mn may revive revl a 0 victim vic vic- victim tim Um of ot asphyxiation on Water Vater an and the excretions of the windpipe an and lungs can be bo gently genth and steadily expelled by squeezing tho the floating or lowest ribs once every five seconds with three seconds of pressure The nearer near near- er you OU exert pressure upon tho the ends enda of ot the theao e lowest or unattached ribs the better success you yon you will have haxe Method of RC Resuscitation The victim must rest flat upon tho the ground taco faco down The Tho face forsooth forsooth for tor- sooth must be he directed to tho the right or left side sid with arms In a bow above the tho head hondo Never wait to move mo the person affected Merely place him thus In the nearest safe eafe spot Straddle the patient on bended beaded knees With tho the flat tint of ot the hands on each side Ride of the lowest ribs ribs never never touch tho the hip bon bones s or the opine the spine the rescuer must exert a rhythmic I pressure pressure pres pres- res- res sure from the shoulders through the tho heel of both hoth hands Of or course the arms armB arc are held straight The fhe person who applies this first aid to resuscitation should exert pressure for tor three seconds b by the tho watch and a release pressure pressure- of ot two seconds secondA for over o an hour even if there ha have havo vo been no signs of ot reward Infinitely longer if It there la It even the I mOlt discouraging signs of returning life The Tho heart often resumes its Us beating an hour before any pulse ap ap- ap pears Victims reported dead of electric shock and accidents have been full fully re restored three hours bourn later Inter thanks to friends skeptical of the tho su superIor superior su- su perlor knowledge of ot th the thA excellent physicians who vho pronounced them absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab dead y |