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[[margin]] Cure of Persons apparently drowned. [[/margins]] 
The methods generally used for the recovery of person apparently drowned are these: Dry linnen and cloaths put on as soon as possible. Bleeding in one or both arms to the amount of six or seven ounces. Frictions of common salt upon the back, and chiefly upon the spine; and sometimes also, of gin and spirit of salk, not only along the back, but also upon the temples and breast. Blowing air into the longs and up the fundaments, and sometimes fumes of tobacco. A repetition and continuance of the above frictions. Two or three glisters given at proper intervals. And various fomentations, begun as soon as possible, and continued without interruption. 
For persons weak and delicate, the smoke of dried marjoram, rosemary, mint, or other aromatic herbs, is preferred to that of tobacco; and bleeding is not to be used indiscriminately, when the body is cold or frozen. Moderate head is strongly recommended. And One was recovered by being wrapped in the warm skin of a sheet instantly killed for that purpose. 
Persons have been recoverd who have lain in the water 20, 30, 45, minutes; and one full hour, half an hour more elapsed before the surgeon arrived; a full quarter of an out was taken up in removing him to a proper place; it was [[underline]] three hours [[/underline]] before he shewed any signs of life, and twelve before he opened his eyes. This is sufficient to prevent any from too hastily giving up the hopes of success.
The following circumstances are reprobated as dangerous, holding the body up by the hells; throwing the head back during the operations, (it ought to be a little bent forward); rolling the body upon a barrel; pouring spirituous liquors into the mouth, without being sure that the patient can swallow them; in fumigating tobacco up the [[underline]] anus [[/underline]], without empting the [[underline]] rectum [[underline]], and then placing the body in a right line, instead of which it ought to describe a curve; warming it by too large a fire; overloading the breast by an excessive weight; and not closing the nose and mouth when air is blown into the lungs.  &c. Gents. Mag. for 1777. pp. 447, 8.
[[margin]] Cure for the bite of a Mad-Dog, and other venomous Animals. see p. 257. [[/margin]]
Dr. de Moneta, Physician in ordinary to his Polish Majesty, first advises to cover the wound with fresh earth, or with snuff, to imbibe the saliva of the animal, and then to wash it with water. At the same time, warm half a pound of butter in four times as much vinegar; and when the wound is cleaned, apply a compress of linen, steeped in that mixture, and moisten [[strikethrough]] ed [[/strikethrough]] it very often with the same for nine days: after which time you may safely remove the compress, and cure the would in the usual way. During the time that the vinegar is used outwardly, the patient must take it internally, four times a day, in doses of an ounce and a half of vinegar, warmed, with a little frest butter; and his common drink, for at least fifteen days, must be pure water, with a little vinegar or juice of citron. - Any strong liquor is extremely hurtful, as is any emotion of anger, or impatience. The thoric patients may be blooded; but this precaution the author regards as little necessary. The Doctor has used the same remedy against the bites of Vipers, and other venomous reptiles, and always with success. He has prevented the hydrophobia in more than sixty people;and many other physicians, who have followed his method, have found it equally effecacious. It is remarkable that, in Italy, vinegar has also been lately discovered to be a remedy for this dreadful disorder. 
Appendix to the Crit. Review. New Arrangement. Vol. V. Sept. 1791. p. 551, 2. Under the Article Poland. 

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