32157. na. Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned. For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to their Relief and for the Treatment of Frostbite as Practiced in the United States Life-Saving Service. U.S. Life-Saving Service. GPO. 1909
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32157. na. Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned. For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to their Relief and for the Treatment of Frostbite as Practiced in the United States Life-Saving Service. U.S. Life-Saving Service. GPO. 1909
- na. Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned. For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to their Relief and for the Treatment of Frostbite as Practiced in the United States Life-Saving Service. U.S. Life-Saving Service. GPO. 1909. 11p. Soft orange wraps. Rare pamphlet discusses the all important “Directions for Restoring Persons Apparently Drowned” which includes text and illustrations detailing life saving techniques. These techniques were taken from the earlier Massachusetts Humane Society, which studied the numbers of persons perishing by drowning and worked with physicians to develop these methods. The dissemination of this “Method of Treatment” for drowning victims was one of the most important efforts of the Humane Society in their effort to improve the survival rate of those who were involved in shipwrecks along the coast. By the mid twentieth century this would develop into what we knew as “Artificial Respiration” and then to today’s CPR. This is a rare Life-Saving Service pamphlet, very difficult to find (the first that I have found in 35 years). Unusually clean, crisp, near fine. (F-). $158.