Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . s stomach, and press heavilyover it upon the spine for half a minute. Rule 3.—Turn the patient quickly again on his back, the rollof clothing being so placed beneath it as to make the short ribs bulgeprominently forward, and raise them a little higher than the levelof the mouth. Let some bystander hold the tip of the tongue out ofone corner of the mouth with a dry handkerchief, and hold bothhands of the patient together
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . s stomach, and press heavilyover it upon the spine for half a minute. Rule 3.—Turn the patient quickly again on his back, the rollof clothing being so placed beneath it as to make the short ribs bulgeprominently forward, and raise them a little higher than the levelof the mouth. Let some bystander hold the tip of the tongue out ofone corner of the mouth with a dry handkerchief, and hold bothhands of the patient together, the arms being stretched forcibly backabove the head. Rule 4.—Kneel astride the patient?s hips, and with your handsresting on his stomach, spread out your fingers so that you can graspthe waist about the short ribs. Now, throw all your weight steadilyforward upon your hands, while you at the same time squeeze theribs deeply, as if you wished to force everything in the chest upwardsout of the mouth. Continue this while you can slowly count—one,—two,—three ;—then SUDDENLY let go, with a final push, which KESTOEATION OF PEE60NS APPARENTLY DROWNED, 437 Fig. MODE OP FORCING AND DRAINING OFF WATER AND OTHER ACCUMULATIONS FROM THE STOMACH,THROAT, AND MOUTH, ACCORDING TO RULE 2, PREPARATORY TO PERFORMING ARTIFICIALBREATHING. a, Patients clothing rolled tightly. Fig. 2.
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