They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert.

  • Lambert, T. S. (Thomas Scott), 1819-1897.
Date:
1879
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Credit: They are not dead : Restoration by the "heat method," of those drowned, or otherwise suffocated / by T.S. Lambert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    20th, was curiously verified almost under my own eyes a year and a half ago in Havana, where I usually reside. A black boy of fifteen years of age, strong, well-grown, the slave of a neighbor, early one morning fell into the bay, and was taken out apparently quite dead. He was carried home and laid on the terrace-roof of the house, a doctor was sent for, and all the means generally used for resuscitating drowned persons were tried in vain during nearly two hours. Convinced at last that all efforts to bring him to life again were useless, every one withdrew, and the corpse was left lying upon the roof, exposed to all the fervor of the tropical sun. When, five or six hours later, the coffin was ready, two men went on to the roof to fetch the body. To their amazement the boy was alive, and very little the worse for his adventure. I saw him the next day, and can vouch for the truth of this statement. There was great excitement in the neighborhood, for the doctor had de- clared him to be perfectly dead. It is evident that this resuscitation was produced by heat alone, and it is, in my opinion, an interesting corroboration of Dr. Lambert's assertion. Yeritas. It was also a great pleasure to read tlie narrative (insert- ed hereafter, p. 20,) descriptive bi the thought and work of so eminent a member of his profession as Dr. Davis. It was brought to my notice immediately after my first article was published, and quite confirmed my mind that I was righ^. The remarkable double testimony brought to light re- cently by a letter received by the New York Evening Post, from a distinguished medical man of our Western Coast, giv- ing the experience of Baron Larrey, is to the point : HEAT FOR THE DROWNED. To the Editors of the Evening Post : The interesting papers of Dr. Lambert in the Evening Post upon the use of heat in the resuscitation of the drowned, have a partial