The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay . epeated carefully and quietly about fifteen times to a minute, untilspontaneous respiration returns (fig. 244 and 245). 18. By stimulation of the skin, the respiratory movements can beexcited or assisted in a reflex manner. The following methods are themost effectual: slapping the chest and abdomen with a wet towel,sprinkling the epigastrium with cold water, rubbing the nape of theneck with ice or snow, injecting cold water into the nose, pushingsmall pieces of ice into the rectum, and exciting the nasal mucousmembrane
The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay . epeated carefully and quietly about fifteen times to a minute, untilspontaneous respiration returns (fig. 244 and 245). 18. By stimulation of the skin, the respiratory movements can beexcited or assisted in a reflex manner. The following methods are themost effectual: slapping the chest and abdomen with a wet towel,sprinkling the epigastrium with cold water, rubbing the nape of theneck with ice or snow, injecting cold water into the nose, pushingsmall pieces of ice into the rectum, and exciting the nasal mucousmembrane by an electric current. 19. If syncope occurs, artificial respiration is to be immediatelyresorted to. Here it is of importance to lower the head and raisethe lower part of the body. This is obtained in the simplest manner byraising the lower end of the table, upon which the patient is lying(fig. 244 and 245) (Inversion after Nelaton). The stagnating blood is thereby assisted in its passage from theright side of the heart, and the stream from the left side encouraged u?. SILVESTERS method of performing artificial respiration. U8 towards the brain. On the same principle in compression of the chestthe left elbow must every time be forcibly pressed against the cardiacregion. Although the respiratory and cardiac movements be not soon restored,yet the efforts must not be given up too early. There are well knowncases, in which artificial respiration continued for three or four hourssucceeded in calling back the life that was passing away. 20. In such cases too, by pressing both electrodes of an inductionapparatus one on each side into the hollow depression above the cla-vicle at the outer border of the sterno-mastoid, so that both phrenicnerves and the other inspiratory nerves of the brachial plexus arestimulated by the current, we can try to set the inspiratory musclesagain in action. * 21. If vomiting occurs during the narcosis, the head is turnedimmediately to one side, so as to
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