| Show RESTORING THE on my return to tiie tile city I 1 received the following communication from that excellent citizen R 13 fordes forces a member of the humans society of massachusetts aiassa e busetti hu setti whose best energies 8 are a r a devoted to the adoption ad 0 cioll of means for the better protection of human humai i ll 11 ilfe life ite BOSTON sept 18 1855 1835 i f EBEN meriam ESQ NEW NEW york my dear sir ir the recent loss of a dear friend with her daughter and another lovely young kidy lidy by drown ing at swan island in the kennebeck renders it necessary to do all that can be done to avert similar calamities these lovely victims ac t ms were drown ed in shoal water and were taken out by an inexperienced person in less than twenty minutes still warm waring I 1 believe belleve and yet from superstitious T or other equally unfortunate motives nothing was done to retrieve them here are some come simple directions which I 1 am having printed on cards to carry in the pocket the newspapers will also publish them so that a circulation of or more copies coples A ill lii bo be insured at ut once I 1 suggest that the same thing le done iu in new york aldamas and aud am as always very truly truls your servant it B FORBES the following are the directions for restoring persons apparently drowned convey cey the body to the nearest honse honre or shelter with witti the head raised strip and rub it dry wrap in warm blankets inflate lii Ili flate the lungs ay iy iy closi closing tg the nostrils willi with thumb and finger whilo while you blow forcibly into tila the mouth i iud ind iud ind then presa piers pless oil on the chest with the hand again blow into ahn the tha boutho mouth and again so bo on for ten tep minutes lr tr until uila the patient breathes naturally weep keep the body warm and the extremities also continue to rub and do not give up for an hour hoar or more if there is in the least reZ reason to hope to this we add do not be diacou discouraged raged if it animation is not immediately perceptible but continue the effort for even two hours E |
