WHEN YOU FALL FAR.
HOW IT FEELS TO DROP 200 FEET
It is qu te a mistake to think thi 4 when a person falls from a great height his heart stops oefoi'e ever his oody touches the ground. Breathing lay suspended tor a. few minutes, but 1! artificial respiration : s applied at once, life can be restored in manv cases.
Tirs wms proved recently in America, when a girl fell a distance of two hundred feet with no more serious results tiiii 11 same fractured bones and a few internal injuries. She compares her sensations while falling to the faintness on.> feels .when travelling downwards in n ierky lift. It was only in the moment of landing that she lost consciousness.
Doctors assert that such accidents would not often prove fatal : f artificial respiration were more generally tried. Just iKM-ause the patient's pulse ;s not heating it is a fatal error to think he must, therefore, he dead. Treat him as yon would a man rescued from drowning, and in nine cases out of ten von will save his life.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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181WHEN YOU FALL FAR. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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