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REVIVING DROWNED PERSONS. THE executive committee of the Life Saving Society of New York has issued the following series of rules for the treatment of persons rescued from the water in an insensible condition:

Rule 1. To drain off water from chest and stomach instantly strip the patient to the waist. Place him face downward, the pit of the stomach being raised above the level of the mouth by a large hard roll of clothing placed beneath it. Throw your weight forcibly two or three times for a moment or two upon the patient's back, over roll of clothing, so as to press all fluids in the stomach out of the mouth.

Rule 2.-To perform artificial breathing: quickly turn the patient upon his back, the roll of clothing being so placed beneath as to make the breast-bone the highest point of the body.

Kneel beside or astride patient's hips. Grasp front part of the chest on either side of the pit of the stomach, resting your fingers along the spaces between the short ribs. Brace your elbows against your sides, and steadily grasping and pressing forward and upward, throwing your whole weight upon your chest, and gradually increasing the pressure while you can count one, two, three. Then, suddenly, let go with a final push, which springs you back to your first posiRest erect upon your knees while you can count one, two; then make pressure again as before, repeating the entire motions at first about four or five times a minute, gradually increasing to about ten or twelve times.

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Use the same regularity as in blowing bellows and as is seen in natural breathing, which you are imitating.

If another person be present, let him with one hand, by means of a dry piece of linen, hold the tip of the tongue out of one corner of the mouth, and with the other hand grasp both wrists and pin them to the ground above the patient's head. After treatment.-After breathing has become natural, dry the patient briskly. Wrap him in blankets only, and let him be kept perfectly quiet. Provide free circulation of air. Give brandy and water a teaspoonful every five minutes the first half hour, and afterward occasionally as may seem expedient.

BEWARE.

1. Avoid delay. A moment may turn the scale for life or death. Dry ground, shelter, stimulants, etc., at this moment are nothing-artificial breathing is everything-is the one remedy; all other means are secondary. If the breathing has but just ceased, a smart slap on the face or stomach will sometimes start it again, and may be tried incidentally.

2. Prevent friends from crowding around the patient and excluding currents of air; also from attempting administration of stimulant before any the patient is well able to swallow; the first promotes suffocation, the second fatal choking.

3. Avoid impatience of results. Any time within two hours you may be on the very threshold of success without there being any sign of it. In suffocation from smoke, coal-gas or other poisonous gases, as also in hanging, proceed in the same way as for drowning, but omit Rule 1.

In case of sunstroke lay the patient in the shade, in free current of air, loosen the clothing, raise the head slightly and pour upon it a small continuous stream of cool water.

The following important suggestions to bathers are given by the society:

Avoid entering the water within two hours after a meal; or when exhausted from any cause; or when the body is cooling after perspiration.

Stay in the water usually not more than fifteen minutes.

Leave the water always with promptness, and dress at once. Do it immediately on suffering from chilliness, especially if there be numbness of hands and feet.

The best time for bathing for strong persons is before breakfast.

For the young or weakly the best time is two or three hours after breakfast.

Bathing should be entirely avoided by those in whom it habitually causes faintness, giddiness or disagreeable palpitation of the heart.

Exposure of the head to the sun during bathing is attended with special danger of sunstroke.

The proper method of bringing a drowning man to shore is to approach the drowning man from behind. Seize him with your left hand by the hair, coat collar or shoulder. Turn him on his back, and then place his head upon your chest, and with your right arm free, swim upon your back to the land. (If by the left hand alone it be too difficult to turn him upon his back, apply in addition the right hand to his right shoulder, and the turning will be easily accomplished.) If he be conscious, encourage him, and direct him to straighten out his legs.

If the drowning man be out of sight under the water, watch carefully for the rising of a bubble upon the surface; he will usually be found directly below it.

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Ad., or Add. Adde, or Addatur. Add, or let there be added.

Ad Lib. Ad libitum. At pleasure.

Altern. Hor. Alternis horis. Every other hour.
Aq. Aqua. Water.

Aq. Bull. Aqua bulliens. Boiling water.
Aq. Comm. Aqua communis. Common water.
Aq. Ferv. Aqua fervens. Hot water.
Aq. Font. Aqua fontis. Spring water.
B. A. Balneum arena. A sand bath.

Bib. Bibe. Drink.

Bis Ind. Bis indies. Twice daily.

Bol. Bolus. A large pill.

Bull. Bulliat. Let it boil.

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Balneum vaporis. A vapor bath.

Cap. Capiat. Let him take.

Chart. Chartula. A small paper.
Cochl. Cochleare. A spoonful.
Col. Cola. Strain.

Collyr. Collyrium. An eye water.
Comp. Compositus. Compound.
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Coq. Coque. Boil.

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Then follow the times of high and low water for Philadelphia. Lastly is given a collection of interesting astronomical phenomena for the year.

THE COAL TRADE of Pennsylvania commenced in 1820 with a total production and sale of 365 tons. In 1873 the State produced 22,828,118 tons anthracite and 6,085,222 tons of bituminous. WE have received from Mr. George W. Childs, publisher, Philadelphia, a handsome New Year's gift-the Public Ledger Almanac, a work of some sixty pages, valuable not only for the admirably arranged and complete calendars of the present year, but more especially as a book of record and reference. It is brimful of fact and sound information, wherein it greatly resembles the Public Ledger itself, the distinguishing feature of which is reliability. What the good people of the Quaker City read in the Public Ledger they will unhesitatingly affirm to be "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth;" so much for the noble character of the Ledger and its generous publisher, to whom we wish many happy returns of the day.-Somerset, N. J., Ga

THE EPHEMERIS. THE Ephemeris for the present year gives, asof heretofore, the day of the year, the day of the month and day of the week, in civil time, according to which the day begins at midnight. Next are given the time of sunrise, the time before or after noon at which the sun's centre souths and the time of sunset. The times of sunrise and sunset are in each case for the upper limb or edge of the sun, corrected for refraction. They are more accurate than usually found in popular almanacs, and will give the time with sufficient accuracy for ordinary purposes. An ordinary surveyor's level will give the horizon where the upper edge of the sun should be at the time given in the almanac. If the telescope of the leveling instrument inverts, the upper edge will, of course, be apparently the lower one. Next are given the times of rising, southing and setting of the moon's centre, and also its age, or the number of days elapsed since

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AMID the almost general demoralization of the secular newspaper press, the Public Ledger is a marked and most honorable exception. Conducted with the enterprise, energy and skill which characterize all the undertakings of its proprietor, George W. Childs, Esq., its columns are as remarkable for freedom from objectionable matter as they are for the variety, condensation and freshness of their news. Its editorials are always thoughtful, and always on matters of important practical interest. The views they inculcate are usually sound, enforced with marked ability, and always on the side of good morals. The money article" for years has been regarded

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as a model of excellence. Clear, pithy, condensed, comprehensive, based on just ideas of the laws of finance, full of reliable information in regard to every important monetary or commercial movement, we have been long accustomed to look to it as the "money article" of our city papers. It is a matter of pleasure to us to see in the continued and increased prosperity of the Public Ledger evidence that the liberality, far-sighted enterprise, energy and skill which Mr. Childs has displayed are not only appreciated by an intelligent public, but are also pecuniarily remunerative.-The Catholic Standard, Philadelphia, June 21.

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