Avoid all rough usage. Do not hold up the body by the feet, or roll
it on casks, or rub it with salt, or spirits, or apply tobacco. Lose
not a moment, carry the body, the head and shoulders raised, to the
nearest house. Place it in a warm room. Let it be instantly stripped,
dried, and wrapped in hot blankets, which are to be renewed when
necessary. Keep the mouth, nostrils, and the throat free and clean.
Apply warm substances to the back, spine, pit of the stomach, arm
pits, and soles of the feet. Rub the body with heated flannel, or
warm hands.—Attempt to restore breathing, by gently blowing with
bellows into one nostril closing the mouth and the other nostril.
Keep up the application of heat. Press down the breast carefully with
both hands, and then let it rise again, and thus imitate natural
breathing. Continue the rubbing, and increase it when life appears,
and then give a tea-spoonful of warm water, or of very weak wine or
spirits and warm water. Persevere for six hours. Send quickly for
medical assistance.