RESUSCITATING THE DROWNED.
A Frenchman has the credit of ing an apparatus for aiding in the resnHß citating of persons apparently drownesSH or who from any other cause have beeiflH temporarily deprived of animation. IWB consists of a cylinder of sheet-iron large enough to contain the body of an adult : person. It is closed at one end, and the inanimate individual is inserted feet foremoat in the receptacle a3 far as the neck, round which there is placed a padd'""" diaphragm, fastened to the cylinder, |j. to be airtight, An air-pump an opening in the tube creates vacuum, and the outer atmosphere, .jL own pressure, forces its way into by the mouth and nostrils, which are left v exposed. By a reversed action of the pump the air is allowed to re-enter the cylinder, and respiration is thereby-re-established. A glass plate inserted in the iron casting enables the operator to watch the movements of the chest, which rises as in life with the movements of the pump. The action may be repeated, it is stated, 18 times in a minute, an exact imitation of natural breathing being thus produced.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 321, 21 November 1879, Page 2
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189RESUSCITATING THE DROWNED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 321, 21 November 1879, Page 2
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