. Anaesthetics : their uses and administration. ion, put yourself athwart or onone side of the patients body in a kneeling posture and facinghis head (see fig. jG). Place your hands flat over the lowerpart of the back (on the lowest ribs), one on each side, andgradually throw the weight of your body forward on to themso as to produce firm pressure—which must not be violent— * See Report of Committee Roy. Med. Chir. Soc, 1904. vol. lxxx%ii.; Proc. Roy_Soc. Edin., vol. xxv., part i., p. 39. 390 AN/ESTHETICS. upon the patients chest. By this means the air (and water, ifthere is any) is driven out
. Anaesthetics : their uses and administration. ion, put yourself athwart or onone side of the patients body in a kneeling posture and facinghis head (see fig. jG). Place your hands flat over the lowerpart of the back (on the lowest ribs), one on each side, andgradually throw the weight of your body forward on to themso as to produce firm pressure—which must not be violent— * See Report of Committee Roy. Med. Chir. Soc, 1904. vol. lxxx%ii.; Proc. Roy_Soc. Edin., vol. xxv., part i., p. 39. 390 AN/ESTHETICS. upon the patients chest. By this means the air (and water, ifthere is any) is driven out of the patients lungs. Immediatelythereafter raise your body slowly, so as to removethe pressure,but leaving your hands in position. Repeat this forward andbackward movement (pressure and relaxation of pressure)every four or five seconds. In other words, sway your bodyslowly forwards and backwards upon your arms twelve tofifteen times a minute, without any marked pause between themovements. This course must be pursued for at least half an. Fig. 76.—Showing the position to be adopted for effectingartificial respiration (Schaters method). hour, or until the natural respirations are resumed. If theyare resumed, and, as sometimes happens, again tend to fail,the process of artificial respiration must be again resorted toas before. 2. Sylvesters Method.* For this method the patient is placed flat upon his backwith the head somewhat lower than the abdomen, and caretaken that there is no mechanical obstruction to the entranceof air— falling back of the tongue, blood clot, mucus, orvomit in the pharynx. During the performance of artificial respiration Wilson f * The method described is modified by the introduction of the essential featuresof the plans proposed by Pacini and Bain,f Trans. Soc. Ancesth. 1898, vol. i., p. 35. THE ACCIDENTS OF ANESTHESIA. 391 agrees with Dr. Bowles that it is best not to have the mouthwidely open, and the tongue dragged far out of the mouth. Th
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