RECOVERY FROM DROWNING.
At Oporto, Portugal, when persons are recovered from the water they are immediately stripped and rubbed all over with salt, but more particularly about the breast, temples, and joints. A sailor recently fell overboard in the river Douro, and was under half an hour. When recovered he was subjected to the above treatment, and in less than four hours he was up and walking about. Similar experiments were afterwards tried on dogs, cats, which were kept under water for two hours and then covered all over with salt, excepting the nostrils, and in a short time they began to breathe and discharge the water from their mouth and nostrils; the struggling soon grew stronger, and in about three or four hours they all got up and ran away.
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Patea Mail, 21 June 1882, Page 3
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131RECOVERY FROM DROWNING. Patea Mail, 21 June 1882, Page 3
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