EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF RESUSCITATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3423, 10 February 1874, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF RESUSCITATION.

The following case shows that the apparently drowned may be resuscitated after the lapse of some time; the boy referred to must have been under water several minutes. We take the extract from the ‘ Marborough Standard ’ (a Yictorial journal) which states that John Pianta, a boy six years old, fell into a waterhole in which there was water of the depth of twelve feet, and immediately sank to the bottom ) some children gave the alarm, and Mr George O’Halloran, who was about 200 yards off at the time, noticing the anxiety, concluded that some accident had happened, and hurried to the spot with a long pole, which chanced to be near at hand. On his arrival he commenced to search for the body, and in a few seconds brought it to the [surface. He lost his hold of it, however, but a second trial was more successful, and the body was taken out of the water apparently lifeless. While O’Halloran was carrying it away in his aims he stumbled, and in x’ecovering himself, suddenly pressed it with some foice, and a quantity of water was dischaiged from the stomach—a circumstance which may have had something to do with the boy’s subsequent recovery. The police were sent for, and senioi-constable O’Donnell took the body up to the station, and with the assistance of other constables, pursued the treatment which is recommended in the printed directions of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the lecovery of persons who are apparently drowned, and in about a quarter-of-an hour the boy was brought to life, but was immediately seized with a violent attack of hysterics. This is one of the narrowest escapes from death by drowning we have ever had to record.