3-016-985 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Restorative treatment of the apparently drowned: Dr. Marshal Hall's method of inducing respiration, 1864. 'Inspiration; expiration...At this season, when accidents in boating and bathing will frequently occur, it may be useful for us to publish, with the engraved Illustrations on this page, the text of those instructions for the revival of persons apparently drowned, which the Royal National Life-boat Institution has lately compiled. The Board of Admiralty and the Comptroller of the Coastguard Preventive Service have each ordered a large number of copies to be distributed amongst the seamen of our Navy and those of the Coastguard respectively. The leading principles of this method are founded upon those prescribed by the late Dr. Marshall Hall, combined with those of Dr. H. R. Silvester, but modified or tested by the results of extensive inquiries which the Life-Boat Institution has set on foot amongst the medical practitioners, Coroners, and other experienced persons throughout the kingdom'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.