Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . Persian skin bnoy. * A canteen, a gonrd, a bladder, or even a liat tied in a liandkercluef havebeen fonnd useful in enKngencies. LIFE-SAVING AT SEA. 1035 we have some recollection of seeing an old tract (printed in 1612)in which there is a qnaint engraving of the saving of one PeterLey by a Dntch West Indiaman. The apparatus in the wood-cut resembled an Bamboo liabit. 11) 1) L i; t api)roach to our modern ring buoy was made byan English surgeon in 1802. Mr. Bosquet proposed a canvas 1036 LIFE-SAVING AT SEA. bag stuffed with cork
Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . Persian skin bnoy. * A canteen, a gonrd, a bladder, or even a liat tied in a liandkercluef havebeen fonnd useful in enKngencies. LIFE-SAVING AT SEA. 1035 we have some recollection of seeing an old tract (printed in 1612)in which there is a qnaint engraving of the saving of one PeterLey by a Dntch West Indiaman. The apparatus in the wood-cut resembled an Bamboo liabit. 11) 1) L i; t api)roach to our modern ring buoy was made byan English surgeon in 1802. Mr. Bosquet proposed a canvas 1036 LIFE-SAVING AT SEA. bag stuffed with cork sliavings,* equal in size to an ordinarybolster, to be coiled or formed like a collar, and snfficientlywide for the head and shoulders to pass throngh, or to be put onand off by straps and buckles, so that it may occupy the spaceunder the arm-pits and sustain a person in an erect position inthe water. This bolster probably suggested the ring buoy or common life-preserver, and the coiled hammock of Eyder. Bos- with loops connected with the ends or sides, by which fourmen may be suspended without danger of losing their support,either by holding on or by placing their bodies between theloops and the machine. Four of these, he declared, wouldmake an excellent raft, and twenty connected together wouldsave over 80 people. These inventions were followed in 1803by a life-saving Horse, made in the form of a T,for the
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