the anniversary of the Founder's death, except that day should happen to fall on a Saturday or Sunday; in either case, the meeting is put off till the following Monday. Upon this occasion the Governors and children of the other Charities, also in procession to attend divine service.

This Charity has, from time to time, received a number of donations; among others, may be mentioned one hundred pounds which Mrs. Mary Mitchell, relict of Mr. Donald Baine, Excise-Officer, gave on the 6th of June 1785.

As every person ought to have some knowledge of the very simple means for reviving the apparently drowned, which the Humane Societies of London and Glasgow have instituted; the following is submitted for general information.

Directions for the Recovery of Drowned Persons.

1. As soon as the patient is taken out of the water, the wet clothes, if the person is not naked at the time of the accident, should be taken off with all possible expedition on the spot,

(unless some convenient house be very near,) and a great coat or two, or some blankets, if convenient, should be wrapped round the body.

2. The patient is to be thus carefully conveyed in the arms of three or four men, or on a bier, to the nearest public or other house, where a good fire, if in the winter season, and a warm bed, can be made ready for its reception. As the body is conveying to this place, great attention is to be paid to the position of the head; it must be kept supported in a natural and easy posture, and not suffered to hang down.

3. In cold or moist weather, the patient is to be laid on a mattress or 'bed before the fire, but not too near, or in a moderately 'heated room; in warm and sultry weather, on a bed only. The body is then to be wrapped, as expeditiously as possible, with a blanket, and thoroughly dried with warm coarse cloths or flannels.

4. In summer or sultry weather too much air cannot be admitted. For this reason it will be necessary to set open the windows and doors, as cool refreshing air is of the greatest importance in the process of resuscitation.

5. Not more than six persons are to be present to apply the proper means; a great number will be useless, and may retard or totally prevent the restoration of life. It will be necessary, therefore, to request the absence of those who attend merely from motives of curiosity.

6. It will be proper for one of the assistants, with a pair of bellows of the common size, applying the pipe a little way up one nostril, to blow with some force, in order to introduce air into the lungs; at the same time, the other nostril and the mouth are to be closed by another assistant, whilst a third person gently presses the chest with his hands after the lungs are observed to be inflated. By pursuing this process, the noxious and stagnant vapours will be expelled, and natural breathing imitated. If the pipe of the bellows be too large, the air may be blown in at the mouth, the nostrils at the same time being

closed, so that it may not escape that way; but the lungs are more easily filled, and natural breathing better imitated, by blowing up the nostril.

7. Let the body be gently rubbed with common salt, or with flannel, sprinkled with spirits, as rum, geneva, or whisky. A warming-pan heated (the body being surrounded with flannel) may be lightly moved up and down the back. Fomentations of hot brandy (or whisky) are to be applied to the pit of the stomach, loins, &c. and often renewed. Bottles filled with hot water, heated tiles covered with flannel, or hot bricks, may be efficaciously applied to the soles of the feet, palms of the hands, and other parts of the body. The temples may be rubbed with spirits of hartshorn, and the nostrils now and then tickled with a feather and snuff.

8. Tobacco fumes should be thrown up the fundament; if a fumigator be not at hand, a common pipe will answer the purpose. The operation should be frequently performed, as it is of importance; for the good effects of this process have been experienced in a variety of instances of suspended animation. But should the application of tobacco-smoke in this way not be immediately convenient, or other impediments arise, clysters of this herb, or other acrid infusions, with salt, &c. may be thrown up with advantage.

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9. When these means have been employed a considerable time without success, and brew-house or warm bath can be readily obtained, the body should be carefully conveyed to such a place, and remain in the bath, or surrounded with warm grains, for three or four hours.

If a child has been drowned, its body should be wiped perfectly dry, and immediately placed in bed between two healthy persons. The salutary effects of the natural vital warmth conveyed in this manner, have been proved in a variety of successful cases.

10. While the various methods of treatment are employed, the body is to be well shaken every ten minutes, in order to

render the process of animation more certainly successful; and children in particular are to be much agitated, by taking hold of their legs and arms frequently, and for a continuance of time. In various instances, agitation has forwarded the recovery of boys who have been drowned, and continued for a considerable time apparently dead.

11. If there be any signs of returning life, such as sighing, gasping, or convulsive motions, a spoonful of any warm liquid may be administered, and if the act of swallowing is returned, then a cordial of warm brandy or wine may be given in small quantities, and frequently repeated.

12. Electricity may be tried by the judicious and skilful, as its application neither prevents nor retards the various modes of recovery already recommended, but, on the other hand, will most probably tend to render the other means employed more certain and efficacious. This stimulus bids fair to be an important auxiliary in cases of suspended animation; and, therefore, deserves the serious regard and attention of the Faculty.

The methods which have been fully described are to be employed with vigour for three hours or upwards, although no favourable circumstances should arise, for it is a vulgar and dangerous opinion to suppose, that persons are irrecoverable because life does not soon make its appearance-an opinion that has consigned to the grave an immense number of the seemingly dead, who might have been restored to life by resolution and perseverance.

Bleeding is never to be employed in such cases, unless by the direction of one of the medical assistants, or some other gentleman of the Faculty who has paid attention to the resuscitating art.

The above directions have been simplified in the following form, viz.

1. The body never to inverted, rolled, or roughly used.

2. To be conveyed speedily to a house, with the head raised;