. Physiology, experimental and descriptive . ?¥- Fig. 96. Resuscitation from 1. on his face, with the head down hill; stand astride the hipswith your face toward his head, and, locking your fingers 332 RESUSCITATION FROM DROWNING together under his belly, raise the body as high as you canwithout lifting the forehead off the ground (Fig. 96, Position1), and give the body a smart jerk to remove mucus from thethroat and water from the windpipe; hold the body sus-pended long enough to count slowly One, Two, Three, Four,Five, repeating the jerk more gently two or three £*&
. Physiology, experimental and descriptive . ?¥- Fig. 96. Resuscitation from 1. on his face, with the head down hill; stand astride the hipswith your face toward his head, and, locking your fingers 332 RESUSCITATION FROM DROWNING together under his belly, raise the body as high as you canwithout lifting the forehead off the ground (Fig. 96, Position1), and give the body a smart jerk to remove mucus from thethroat and water from the windpipe; hold the body sus-pended long enough to count slowly One, Two, Three, Four,Five, repeating the jerk more gently two or three £*&.? Fig. 97. Resuscitation from Drowning. (Position 2.) Rule 2. Place the patient on the ground face downward,and, maintaining all the while your position astride the body,grasp the points of the shoulders by the clothing, or, if thebody is naked, thrust your fingers into the armpits, claspingyour thumbs over the points of the shoulders, and raise thechest as high as you can (Fig. 97, Position 2) without liftingthe head quite off the ground, and hold it long enough tocount slowly One, Two, Three. Replace him on the ground, RESUSCITATION FROM DROWNING. 333 with his forehead on his flexed arm, the neck straightenedout, and the mouth and nose free. Place your elbows againstyour knees, and your hands upon the sides of his chest (, Position 3) over the lower ribs, and press downward and in-ward with increasing force long enough to count slowly One,Two. Then suddenly let go, grasp the shoulders as before,
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