In a recent communication to the French Academy, Professor Fort
asserts that he was enabled to restore to life a child three years
old, by practicing artificial respiration on it four hours, commencing
three hours and a half after apparent death. He mentions also a case
in which Dr. Fournol, of Billancourt, reanimated, in July, 1878, an
apparently drowned person by four hours of artificial respiration
begun one hour after the patient was taken from the water. At this
season, when cases of drowning are apt to be frequent, the possible
benefit that may come from a persevering effort to revive victims
of drowning, should encourage friends not to despair of their
resuscitation, even after several hours of seemingly fruitless labor.
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