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 No. 113,
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THE
INSTITUTIO

     /    OF  THE


    Humane  Society

           OF  THE

Commonwealth of Massachusetts t

          WITH THE   /-^:JS\

      R  U  L   Eit'V''

  For regulating  faid  So'gietYj

             AND

 The Methods of Treatment to be iifed with
  Perfons apparently dead; with a Number,
  of recent Cafes proving the happy Effects
  thereof.
BOSTON; Printed in the Year 17884 
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Summary of the  Method of  'Treatment  to be
   ufdd  with Terfons  apparently  dead from
   drowning.

     CONVEY the  perfon to the nearefr. convenient
      houfr,  with  his head raifed ;—Strip and dry
 him as quick as poflible ;  clean  the  mouth and nof-
 trils  from froth   or  mud—if  a child, let him be
 placed between two  perfons naked, in  a hot bed —
 if an adulr,  lay him on a hot blacker or  bed, and in
 cold weather, near a fire—in warm weather, the air
 fhould be freely admitted into the room.—The bo-
 dy is next to be gently  rubbed  with wajrn woollen
 cloths fprinkled with fpirits, if at  hand, otherwife
 dry ;—ft. heated  warming-pan  may be now lightly
 moved over the back, properly  covered with a blan-
 ket—and the body,  if  of a child, is  ro be gently
 (honk every few minutes :—Whilfl thefe mesns are
 ufing, one or  two affiflants, are to be employed in
 blowing up tobacco  fraoke, imo  the  fuudament,
 with the inftrumenr  provided for  the  purpofe, or a
 Tobacco Pipe, if that cznnot be had—the bowl filled
 with Tobacco, and properly lighted, being covered
 with a handkerchief,  or piece of linen,  fo as to de-
 fend the mouth of the afiiilant in blowing ;  Bathe
 the  bread  with hot  rum, and  perfift in the ufe of
 thefe means for feveral hours.   If no  figns of life
 (hould then appear, let the body be kept warm feve-
 ral hourJpbnger, with hot bricks,  or veffels of hot
 water, applied to  the palms of the hands, and foles
 of  the  feet, and  this for a longer or (borter time*
 as the  circumftauces of the cafe may  diclate. 
 
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                 T  H  E

  INSTITUTION

               OF   THE


     Humane  Society

               OF  THE

  Commonwealth of  Maffachufetts.

     FROM a variety of faithful experiments,  and
      inconteftible  facts, it  is now confidered  as
      an eftabliftied  truth, that the total fufpenfion
 of the vital functions in the  animal body is  by no
 means incompatible with  life ;  and confequently,
 the marks  of apparent death may fubfift without
 any neceffary implication of  an abfolute extinction
 of the animating principle.

   The boundary  line between life and death, or
 the  diftmguifhing  figns of  the latter, are  objects
 to which the utraoft efforts  of the human capacity
 have never yet attained.  Nor can we, with any
 degree of  certainty, pronounce, that  an animal is
 dead, until the mod  unequivocal proofs of putre-?
 faction have been furnilhed.
                                      Frong 
(   6   )
  From  thefe  facts  it  might  re3fonab!y  be  ex-
pected, that,  were proper meafures  to be adopted,
efpecially  in  cafes peculiarly  doubtful, we might
frequently be  enabled  to reftore 10 full  life,  and
the enjoyment of it,  a beloved friend, or a valuable
member  of  fociety.   And indeed, numerous  fuc-
cefbful inftances might  be adduced in (he  cafes of
perfons,  who would  in a few hours have been con-
figned to an  untimely  grave;  and perhaps  have
fuffered all the horrors of inevitable death, attended
with a confcioufnefs of their own terrible fituaiion.

   It is  not,  however,  to be  underftood, rhat any
procefs, directed  to  the above-mentioned purpofe,
can be eqsnily applicable to all  cafes.   For  as the
attempt mud prefuppofe an entire date of the  vital
organs, it is  obvious that thofe apparent  deaths,
which are  confequent upon  difeafe, afford, in ge-
neral,  little or  no encouragement for fuch attempts.
But in mod cafes of fudden  death,  the vital organs
appear to have fudained  but  a  very flight  injury,
and only  require a feafonable  excitement of the
heart to renew their action.

   The  exquifite feelings attendant on the  unex-
 pected redorarion  of an affectionate  friend,  or  an
 indulgent  parent, a  dutiful  child,  or an  intimate.
 companion of our bofoms,  after having been fud-
 denly torn  from us, and in imagination  numbered
 with the dead, may be more eafily conceived  than
 defcribed.   Nor is the acquifition of one deferving
 member of fociety an  object unworthy the public
 attention. 
(   7   )
   Upon  thefe confideraticns,  focieties have been
 formed in various parts  of Europe  for promoting
 attempts to recover  perfons  from apparent death,
 efpscialiy  in  cafes  of  fuffocation and drowning.
 The Humane Society eftablifhed in  Great-Britain,
 in  1774,   nas  been  very fuccefsful.   Within  ten
 years  Irom its  iodiiutiou, out  of  1300 perfons
 apparently dead from  drowning,  70^0  have been
 redored  to their  friends and country.  Many  of
 them, no  doubt, ufeful  and valuable men.

  For an indituticn of this nature a confiderable fund
 is neceffary.  And many occafiocal^expences will un-
 avoidably occur.  The caufe of humanity, however,
 deferves every  encouragement.   And to  promote
 that caufe, it  is to  be hoped  the benevolent will
 liberally  fubfcribe.

  A  Society is now  formed  for  thefe  falutary
purpofes in this Commonwealth : And the follow-
ing  plan and arrangements are fubmitted   to the
infpsction   of the  publick.
S^S^SJSKSM
RU LES 
(   8   )
RULES for  the  regulation of a  Society
   inftituted in the town of Bofton, for the
   recovery of perfons zuho  meet with fuch
   accidents as produce in  them the  appear-
   ance of death.

I. rip HAT the  Inftitution (hall be called The
    \   Humane Society  of the  Common'
'wealth of Majfachufetts.

   II. That  the  Society (hall be governed  by a
dumber of  Truftees not exceeding twelve, of whom
one (hall be the Prefident, two Vice-Prefidents, one
Treafurer, one recording  Secretary, and  one cor-
refponding  Secretary,

   III.  That the  Prefident, or,  in his abfence, a
Vice-Prefident, with the major part of the Truftees,
 (hall conftitutea quorum.

   IV.  That the Prefident, with the advice of  the
 Truftees, (hall  be empowered to call  at  his  plea-
 fure a meeting of the Society, but that the Society
 (hall indifpenfibly  meet twice every  year, namely,
 on the (econd Tuefday in December and the fecond
 Tuefday in June.

   V.  That each fubferiber (hall, in  the month of
 December  annually, pay  into  the  hands of  the
 Treafurer  a fum  not  lefs  than fix /hillings and
 eight pence.
VI. That 
(   9   )
   VI.  That  fuch  gentlemen of  the  faculty,  as
 ih'l  engage to afford  their affiftance towards pro-
 moting the  views of the Society, (hall  give  their
 medical attendance gratis.

   VLl. That  the  Prefident and Truftees (hall be
 annually elected  by  ballot on  the fecond Tuefday
 in December ; and that when  a fubferiber  cacnot
 attend fuch election in perfon, he (hall be entitled
 to vote by proxy.

   VIII. That when  any  accident  (hall  happen,
 producing   apparent death, the  perfon  who (hall
 fi>ft difcover,  and endeavour to recover the fubjeft,
 (hall  be entitled  to receive from the Treafurer of
 the Society, a fum not exceeding forty-eight /hillings,
 nor  lefs than fix /hillings, lawful money,  at  the
 difcretion of the Truftees.

   IX.  That the perfon who (hall  bring the flrft
 intelligence  to  one of (he phyficians of the Society
 of fuch accident as  is  expreffed in the preceeding
 law, (hall be entitled to receive  from  the Treafurer
 of the Society, a fum not exceeding nine /billings.

   X. That  any perfon,  who (hall, by a  fignal
exertion, fave another  from  death, (hall receive
from  the Treafurer of  the  Society, a fum not  ex-
 ceeding thirty Jhillingi  lawful money, at the dif-
cretion  of the  Truftees.

   XI, That the  Truftees (hall appoint fome perfon
to deliver a  public difcourfe on the fecond Tuefday
of June every  year, upon fome fubject  connected
with the principal objects of this Society.
                       B            XII.  That 
C   >°   )
  XII That  the recording Secretary (hall keep a
fair copy of all  the vbtes and  proceedings of the
Society, and record all fuch cafes and communica-
tions as the Truftees (hall direct.

  XIII That  the correfponding  Secretary  (hall
write  all  letters  relating to  the bufinefs of the
Society,  and  (hall anfwer  all  fuch letters  as the
Society (hall receive,  they being previoufly commu-
nicated  to the Prefident,  or Truftees aflembled.

  XIV  The Prefident  and Truftees  (hall,  upon
the fecond Tuefday  in June, in every year,  pub-
lickly  adjudge  a  filver medal, not exceeding the
value  of one guinea, to the author  of  the mod:
approved  differtation  which they  (hall have re-
ceived in the courfe of the preceding year,  upon
fome  fubject connected  with the principal  objects
of this  Society;  and the Society  (hall order the
fame to  be printed  at their expence, provided it
(hall be agreeable to the author's inclination.
THOUGH 
(   'I   )
THOUGH  the  following Methods  are chiefly
   adapted to cafes of apparent death from drewning,
   yet the Society think it  proper to obferve, that
   moft  of the means  of restoration herein recom-
   mended are applicable to a confiderable variety of
   other  cafes,  fuch  as  hanging, convulfion fits,
   fuffocation by  damps,  or noxious  vapours, the
   confined air of wells, cifterns,  caves, or the mud:
   of fermenting liquors.—.The Society have in fome
   of the. more effentia|  articles of treatment, fol-
   lowed the recommendations of foreign  Societies
   of a fimilar nature; they have however endea-
   voured to  render them more conformable to the
   particular circumftances of this country.

METHODS of Treatment to be ufed with
   Terfons apparently dead from drowning.

I T^HE  unfortunate perfon is to  be  conveyed
   ' •*■  carefully to the neareft houfe :  For this pur-
pofe the  head is to be raifed a little, as in  bed, and
the  body (hould be  carried in  a natural  and eafy
pofture.
   II The  Subject is to be  immediately  dripped,
and  laid  on a warm bed, and ihe/kin well dried with
heated flannels, the mud  and froth to be  removed
from the mouth and noflrils; if the body was naked
at the time of the accident, it is then to be furround-
ed as expeditioully as  poflible with a hot  blanker,
and  thoroughly dried with  coarfe cloths or flannels,
   III The fraokeof tobacco thrown up the funda-
ment (hould be ranked among the earlieft applications:
If a  fumigatcr  (hould not be at hand,  the  commou
                                           pipe 
(   12   >
pipe* will ar Aver the purpofe of applying this vapour
to the bowels.  So eafy and important an operation
(hould be repeatedly performed, as the good effetf s
of tobacco fmoke have  been proved in many cafes.
   IV. The (kin is to be gently rubbed with warm
woollen  cloths, and a warming pan heated (the body
bemg furrounded with flannel) may lightly be moved
op and  down  the back  for  a confilerable  time.
Wooden  bottles filled  with  hot wner, &c.   or
heated bricks, covered  with flannel,  may  be effica-
cioufly applied  to the foles of the  feet, palms of the
hands, and other parts of the body.
   V If a child has been drowned, its  body (hould
be wiped  perfectly  dry, and immediately  placed in
bed between two perfons of good  conditution ;  the
falurary effeas of the natural vital warmth  have been
clearly proved in a  variety of fuccefsful  cafes.
   VI  The body  is  to  be rubbed  with flannels,
fprjnkled with  fpirits, and fomentations of hot  ruin
are to be applied to the bread, &c. and often renew-
ed. The nodriismay be every now and then tickled
with a feather \fnujf*nd  volatiles (hould be  occa-
fionally made ufe of, to excite  freezing  if poflible.
The various means of recovery (hould  be made ufe
of by the Affijlants for feveral hours, the  body is to
be  gently (haken   every  ten  minutes,  in order to
render the procefs more certainly  fuccefsful; and the
bodies of Children  in  particular  are  to be agitated,
by  taking hold of  their arms and legs frequently,
and for a continuance of time,   la a  variety of in-
                                         flances
  * When the common Pipe is ufed, the fmoke is to be
    blown wi.h  the  mouth from the  bowl, through the
    Aero,  into the fundament,  ccveriog the bowl with a
    handkerchief, or  thin piece of linen. 
                    (    13   )

 (lances agitation, in conjunction  with the methods
 laid down, has forwarded the recovery of boys who
 had been drowned, and continued for a confiderable
 time apparently dead.
   VII If there be any figns of returning life, fuch as
 fighing, gafping, convulfive  motions,  puliation or a
 Datural warmth, a fpoonful of any warm liquid may
 be adminidered ; and if it proves that the power  of
 fwallowiog is returned, then a cordial draught may
 be given in  fmall  quantities, but not without the
 direction of  a  Phyfi nn.
   VI11. When the air is very cold or moifl, the various
 methods of treatment are to be made ufe of near a
 large fire, or in a  heated apartment.   On the other
 hand,  if the weather is warm, or /ultry  (49  in the
 fummer feafon) the windows and  doors of the room
 fhouid be opened ;  and in every  other poflible way
 a cool refrefhing air obtained ; as  it is  of the glared
 importance  in bringing forward  the  latent ipark  of
 life, or in refloriog natural breathing.
   IX. No perfons are to be admitted into the room,
 but thofe who are actually employed in exerting their
 utmoic endeavours  for  the recovery  of the  unfor-
 tunate ; fix perfons are therefore the greateft number
 that can ever  prove ufeful on fuch occafioos; and
 thofe who  are by-danders for the fake of curiofity
 (hould be requefted  to withdraw, as their prefence
 may retard or totally prevent the reiteration.
   Bleeding  is never to  be  employed  in /uch cafes,
 unle/s by the direelion of one 0/ the  Medical Ajftfiants,
cr  fime other re/peclabte gentleman of the faculty,
who has paid attention to Juch unfortunate accidents.
                                           The 
(   14   )
  The methods  which have  been fo fully recom-
mended, are to be made ufe of with vigour for feveral
hours, although  no favourable circumdances (hould
arife ; for it is a  vulgar and  dangerous  opinion to
fuppofe  that  perfons are irrecoverable, becaufe life
does not  foon make  its appearance; and upon this
opinion, an immenfe number of the  feemingly dead
have been committed to the grave; who might have
been  restored  to  life   by refolution  and
perfeverance in  the  plans  ot treatment  now re-
commended.
Methods  to  be  ufed for  the  Recovery  of
              Terfons frozen.
IqpHE body of a.perfon chilled with the Cold,
   A   apparently lifelefs, is to be carefully examin-
ed, and  if  the limbs are not  ftiffened,  if there is
any degree  of warmth remaining  about  the  bread
or in the armpits,  it may be proper to attempt the
Recovery, efpecially if any motion  is perceivable by
putting the hand  upon the heart.
   II  The body  is to be placed  undercover, but
not near  a fire.——Nothing hot is to be applied to
auy parts of the body ; to the foles of the feet, how-
ever, warm bricks may be applied with fafety.
   111. The body  is  to  be  gently  rubbed  with a
woollen cloth, or with  a warm hand, efpecially about
the bread and along the back bone.
   IV. Tobacco fmoke is  to   be  blown  into  the
fundament  from a lighted tobacco pipe,  if conve-
nient, warm clyIters  (hould  alfo  be injected,  and
if fymptoms of  recovery are then apparent, a
                                          little 
(   I*   )
little weak wice and water may be  given moderately
warmed, but no ftrong fpirits nor any thing elfe is to
be given that may have a tendency fuddenly to in-
creafe the circulation of the blood, as every thing of
that kind mud at this dage of the recovery  prove
very injurious.
   N. B.  Whenever any good has been produced by
the means recommended, the perfon who has fuper-
intended  the cure is defired to write a circumdantial
account of it to the Society.
          DONATIONS.
     DR. Oliver Smith  prefented the Society with  a
      Machine for injection of tobacco-fmoke,  to
be depofited  in  a proper  place, for the relief  of
perfons apparently dead from drowning.

  The fird Vice-Prefident prefented the Trudees
with  a deed  or title of onefhare inMalden-Btidge,
and  requefted  the acceptance of the feveral pay-
ments for the fame,  amounting  to  the  fum  of
thirty-fix  pounds,  upon  the  following  conditions,
viz.  That the income arifing  from faid  (hare  (hall
be  put to  intered continually, for  the term  of
twenty years, as  an accumulating fund, under the
direction  of  the  Trudees;  at the  expiration  of
which term, the  intered  arifing  from   faid  fund,
together  with  the income of  faid  (hare, to  be
appropriated  for  the  benefit  of  faid Society,  at
the direction of the Trudees for the time  being.
Th 
(  16   )
 The following  is  a Li/l  of the  Officers
       elected for  the Tear  1788.
Hon. JAMES BOWDOIN, Efq; Prefident.
Thomas  Russell,  Efq; Fird Vice-Prefident.
Jo-in Warren,  M. D. Second Vice-Prefident.
Rev.  Simeon Howard, D. D.  Treafurer.
Rev. John Clarke, Correfponding Secretary.
Rev.  Samuel Parker, Recording Secretary.
Rev. John Lathrop, D.D.
Rev. Peter  Thacher,
Doct. Thomas Welsh,
Aaron Dexter, M. D.
John  Avery, Efq;
Mr. Nathaniel Balch.
1
^ Truftees, 
(   '7   )
Lifl of the Members of the Humane Society,

   JOhn Andrews,  Efq;
     Mr.  Thomas  Amory,
Mr. Azor Archbald,
John Avery, jun.  Efq;
Mr. Jonathan  Loring Auftin,
Hon. Benjamin Auftin, jun. £fq^

Mr. Nathaniel Balch,
Dr. Jcfhua Barker,  Hingham,
Jo(eph Barrel!, Efq$  20/!  per annum,
Simuel Barrett,  Efq;
Doct.  Jofiah  Bartletr, Cbarle/lown,
Rev. Jeremy Belknap,
Mr. Nathaniel Bethune,
Mr.  William Billings,
Hon. James Bowdoin, Efq;  £. 3.
James Bowdoin, jun.  Efq; Dorchefler,
John  Boyle, Efq;
Samuel Bradford, Efq;
Samuel Breck, Efq;  20/I
Mr.  Henry  Bromfield, jun.
 John Brown,  Efq;
Thomas  Bulfinch, M. D.  2of.

Benjamin  Clark, Efq;
Rev. John Clarke,
Hon.  Richard Cranch, Efq; Braintree.
Capt. Nathaniel Curtis,
Thomas Culhing jun.  Efq;
Mr. Benjamin Clark  Cutler,

Hon.  Francis Dana, Efq;  Cambridge,  20/C
 Mr. William  Dal!,
                     C 
(   18   )
Mr,  Peter  Roe Dalton,
Hon. Caleb Davis, Efq;
Amafa  Davis, Efq;
Robert  Davis, Efq;
Thomas Dawes, jun. Efq;
Mr.  Gilbert  Deblois,  jun,
Richard Devens, Efq;
Mr. John  Deverell,
Aaron  Dexter, M. D.
Mr, Ebenezer  Dorr,

Rev. Jofeph  Eckley,
Rev, John Eliot,
Mr. Simon Elliott,
Mr. Thomas Englilh,
William Erving, Efq;
 Mr. John Erving, jun.
 Sieur  de 1'Etombe, zqf.
 Rev.  Oliver Everett,

 Mr. Nathaniel  Fellows,
 Mr. John Fenno,
 Mr. Boflenger Fofter,
 Mr. William Fofter,
 Rev.  James Freeman,
 Mr. Jonathan Freeman,

 Hon. Elbridge Gerry,  Efq; Cambridge,
 Mr. Jofeph Greene,
 Jofeph Greenleaf,  Efq;
 Mr. John Greenleaf,

 Mr. Jofeph Hall,
 Jofeph Hall, jun. Efr;
  Mr.  John Harbach, 
(   I?   )
Dodt. Lemuel Hayward,
Samuel Henfhaw, Efq; Northampton,
Stephen Higginfon, Efq;
Henry Hill, Efq;
Benjamin Hichborn, Efq;
Alexander Hodgdon, Efq;
Rev. Simeon Howard, D. D.

Hon. Jonathan Jickfou, Efq; Ncwbury-Pert?
Henry Jackfon,  Efq;
Leonard Jarvis,  Efq;
Patrick Jeffery,  Efq; £3.
John Coffin Joaes,  Efq;
Doct. John  Joy,

Mr.  Bartholomew Kneeland,
Mr.  Thomas Knox,

Mr.  William  Lambert,
Rev. John  Lathrop,  D.  D.
Hon. Benjamin Lincoln,  Efq; Bingham,
Doct. James Lloyd,
Hon. John Lowell, Efq;  20^
Mr.  John Lowell,
John Lucas, Efq;

Jonathan  Mafon, Efq;
Jonathan  Mafon, jun.  Efq;
Mr.  John May,
Mr.  Jofeph  May,
George Richards Minor,  Efq;
Mr.  John Murray, Glouce/ler,

Mr.  Henry  Newman,
Rev. Thomas Fkch Oliver,  Marbkhead, 
(   *o   )
Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Efq;
Rev. Samuel Parker,
Mr. Jofeph Pierce,
Mr. Robert Pope,
Mr. Jofeph Pope,
"William  Powell, Efq;
Mr. Henry Preotifs,
Ezekiel Price, Efq;
Edward  Proctor,  £(<$

Mr. Samfon Read,
John Rice, Efq;
Thomas Ruflell, Efq; £.% %f.
Mr. Jofeph Ruflell,
Mr. Ezekiel  Ruflell,

Daniel Sargent,  Efq;
Air. Daniel Sargent,  jun.
Mr. Samuel Salifbury,
William Scollay, Efq;
Mr. William  Selby,
Hon. David Sewall,  Efq; York,
Samuel Sewall, Efq; Marblehead,
Mr. William Shattuck,
Doct. Oliver Smith,
Mr. William Smith,
Capt. Nehemiah Somes,
Hon. John Sprague,  Efq; Lancafler,
Rev. Samuel Stillman,
Doct. Charles Stockbridge, Scituate,
Mr. Ruflell Sturgis,
Hon  James Sullivan,  Efq;
James  Swan,  Efq;
John S^eetfer, Efqj 
(   ai   )
Mr. John Templeman,
Rev. Peter Thacher,
Doct.  Thomas Thaxter, Hingham,
Dcct.  David Townfend,
Mr. Edward  Tuckerman,
William  Tudor, Efq;
Hon.  Cotton Tufts,  Efq; Weymouth,

Ebenezer Wales,  Efq;  Dorche/ler>
Mr.  Ephraim  Wales,
John Warren,   M. D.
Jofiah  Waters, Efq;
Arnold Welles,  Efq;
Doct.  Thomas  Welub,
Hon.  Oliver Wendell, Kfijj
Doct.  Mofes Willard, Roxbury,
Doct. lfaac Window,  Marfhfield.
              Advertifement,
CUCH Gentlemen in this Commonwealth as wi(h
   to encourage  this benevolent  inditution,  are
requeded to apply  to either of the Trudees, with
whom fubfcripticjn  papers are lodged; and thofe,
to whom it is not  convenient to apply in perfon,
may, on  tranfmitting their  names,  with  the  fum
they incline to fubfcribe annually,  have their names
entered as members of the Humane Society. 
C   22   )
           CASES
Wherein Perfons apparently dead from Drowning
               have been  recovered.
     AN ingenious and very ufeful Communication on
      the  fubjedt of Refioration from apparent Deatht
has been  received from  Mr.  Jonathan Williams  of
Bofton, from which, as an encouragement for exertion
in fimilar  cafes, the following facts are extracted.—
A child of Mr. Williams,  at that time in Nantz, at
about the age of 12 days was taken ill, and on the 13th
to appearance died.—Mr.  Willliams immediately de-
termined  to  try an  experiment on his  child,  and  by
gentle friction with foft flannel near a fire, in about
fifteen minutes  reftored it to life;  though being very
weak from a premature birth,  it lived only  20 hours
longer.—Mr.  Williams himfelf at the age of nine
years,  fell into the  mill-creek—it is uncertain how
Jong he continued under water—he was at length dis-
covered and taken up breathlefs ;  the body was placed
between hot  blankets and rubbed  on every  part with
hot cloths, hot bricks  were applied to the foles of his
feet, and all the other  ufual methods were employed,
till every one except his mother was difcouraged, and
defifted from  the ufe of means ;  (he  alone,  however,
indefatigably perfevered, and was rewarded, though not
until the end  of four houts, with the exquifite pleafure
of reftoring him to life.
   Doctor Franklin  communicated to  Mr. Williams
the cafe of a  gentleman, who laboured under a difeafe
which he himfelf fuppofed would prove mortal: When
he approached the laft agonies, his faithful fervant was
weeping by his  fide—he ordered the fervant to watch
him, and when he had  breathed his laft, to get naked
into his bed, and as far as poffible encompafs the body;
then to breathe forcibly into his  mouth, and continue
this  act till he fhould recover, or become cold.—He
punctually obeyed ; the  gentleman  recovered,  and
Jjvetl to relate the dory many years after.
                                         Another 
C   »S   )
   Another well known inftance is produced of a  Phi-
ladelphia  gentleman  in France, who about five years
 fince was  fuppofed to have died, and  three days after-
 wards was about  to be buried, when  a Phyfician pre-
 fers happening to look  into  the coffin, was induced,
 from the appearance of the countenance, to delay the
 funeral ; he  immediately made ufe of the common
 methods ; the gentleman revived, and is now alive and
 ■well in Philadelphia.

   The following cafe is  extracted from a letter from
 Dr. Blodget, viz. That on the 4th of June 1757,  he
 was called to the fon of Mr. Nathaniel Gunn, jun. of
 Montague, who had been taken out  of a Well, and
 was fuppofed to  be dead.  When he  arrived at the
 houfe, he found him laid on a bed  covered with  a
 blanket, without the lead  appearance of life either from
 puliation or refpiration.  The Doctor  opened a vein
 in the arm but could not obtain any blood ; his  next
 attempt to reftore life was by friction, with warm flan-
 nels; by pending in this plaa for  about  15 minutes,
 the Boy began  to grew warm, and motion was ob-
 served at the pit of the ftomach, and  foon after a figh
 followed and a fpoonful of water ran out of his mouthj
 his pulfe began to beat and refpiration took place, and
 in  about an hour he was able to fit  up in the bed.
    Thus without any other  means,  excepting  fome
 trifling cordials, he  was  reftored to life and health.
    Mr. Gunn, upon  being informed  of the accident,
 went down the  Well,  perceiving the water perfectly
 ftill, did oot expect to find the Boy there ; but plung-
 ing his arm into the  water, which was near three feet
 deep, he found him laying at the bottom, and imme-
 diately  carried  him  into the houfe,  ftrip'd him, and
 laid him on the  bed as the Doctor found him.
    The Doctor cbferves,  that *' though it is impoflible
 to determine how long the Boy was  in a  date  of in-
 activity, breathlefs, and to appearance dead ; yet if we
 allow fifteen minutes for the Boy  to  be under water,, 
(   H   )
(and I am of opinion it was much longer) and twenty
five minutes for the mefTenger  to come to  mc, to the
diftance of  four  miles ; and twenty five minutes for
me to go  to Mr. Gunn s, and fifteen  minutes after 1
got there before  life appeared in the Boy, we can ac-
count for  one hour and one quarter.
   The following communication, with  which  we
have  been favored by  Mr. James Sumner, farther
proves the utility  of perfeverance in  cafes  which  at
firfl  may  appear  entirely defperate.   A Lad of  the
name of Greene, had fallen into the mill-pond, in this
town; he had been  under water about 20 minutes,
when he was found and brought on fhore  apparently
dead.—The body was agitated by rolling gently on a
barrel, and a confiderable quantity of water difcharged
from the mouth thereby ; after this he was conveyed
to the houfe of Mr.  Sumner's  father: Mr.  Sumner
immediately heated a blanket very hot and wrapp'd up
in it the body of the lad, which he then placed  before a
pretty large fire,  turning  it fo as to expofe every part
to the fire ; during this time the body was constantly
rubb'd with fine fait, but  for the fpace  of an hour  and
an half no fign of life whatever  appeared :  After  this
Mr. Sumner dill perfevering, he thought he felt afmall
degree of  fluttering motion in the belly;  he dill con-
tinued, applying his hands to various parts of the body,
but would have been difcouraged from perfeveringhad
he not heard that  fuch attempts, though  for a long
time feemingly fruitlefs,  had finally, fometimes,  been
crowned  with fuccefs  ;  from this confederation  the
meafures were continued 'till at length a pulfation was
felt, firft in  the temples,  and foon after in the wrid ;
not long after this an effort was made to breathe, with
a kind of fnorting noife in drawing in the air; a num-
ber of others fucceeded, at firft more (lowly, but graj
dually in quicker fuccefu\>n, 'till he began to breathe
free and eafy ; and nothing having been poured  into
the mouth,  he at length appeared  to  be perfectly re-
covered ;  when Mr. i/jmnsr led him  home  in health
to his parents. 
(   *s   )
The following In/lances may fertie to convey fome tded ofiha
  Succe/s with which the In/titution has been attended.
 A  Child  of Mr. Samuel Dafhwood, jun. painter, in
***• Bofton, of two years of age, in the  month  of
October, 1787, fell into a Ciftern of water, 7 feet deep*
and was taken out by a gentleman  of the neighbour-
hood, and  was apparently  dead:  Fortunately thiS
gentleman  was acquainted  with the methods recom-
mended by the Humane Society, and immediately
began to put them into practice.
  The fubject was undrefled and wiped as dry as pof*
fible ; hot blankets were wrapped round the body, and
as one became cool, another was applied,—-with thefe,;
friction was  ufed to every part of the body; after  a
few minutes  (between four and feven) they had  the
unexpected fatisfaction,  to difcover  figns of returning
life,—the fiift fymptom of recovery, was a convulfiye
motion of  the cheff j attended with a forcible effort to
diffend  the lungs: A Pbyfician arriving at this time$
the pulfe was examined, and though perceptible, it was
extremely  languid  and  irregular :—Fumigation  of
tobacco, was vigbroufly applied^  and on the firft injec-
tion into the hovels, it inftantly produced a full infpi-
ration, fuccceded by a loud and laborious roar—and  an
evident increafe of the action of the heart;—On Ap-
pending the ufe of this remedy, for a minute, the vigor
of the pulfe was fenfibly abated,  and on returning to it
again, the effects were as before, together with  a fmall
difcharge of indigefted  matter from  the ftomach; in
about 25 minutes  from the child's being taken out of
the water,  the pulfe began to beat with fome degree of
regularity,  and the breathing to be performed with lefs
labour and  interruption, though he was ftill to appear-
ance  in  confiderable  diftrefs: At this period he was
placed in a  hot bed, with a perfon, who was directed to
continue the friction; hot  bricks were applied to the
feet, and a  warming-pan of coals directed to be repeat-
edly  moved  over the bed cloaths.   In three or four
hours he appeared to be perfectly recovered, and is now
a healihy and prorriifiruz child.
                                           THK 
(   ^   )
HPHE Society, fince their  laft publication,  have
 ■*■  erected for  the benefit of  fhipwrecked Mariners
a number of huts, or  fmall buildings, furnifhed with
neceffiries for thfir Relief,  viz. one on Lovell's ifhnd,
in the harbou* of Bo/ton, fituated on the north eaft fide,
on a rifing ground, about fixty rods from the fhore ;
one on  the outer  beach  of Nantafket, about fortv rods
irom Strawberry-Hi I,  fo called ;  and one on Scituate
beach,  a mile to the  fouthward of the fourth chft, fo
called,  and nearly oppofite to White's  ferry.

   The following  Certificate will  /hew the Effefis of this
     timely Provifion for an Accident to which every Ve/fel
     coming upon the Coa/i is xon/lantly liable.
                        Bo/ion February 25th, 1788.
     THIS may certify, that in the night of the 14b of
      December laft, a fmall fchooner failed fiom this
place b  iuad 10 Cape-Ann, having on board befides the
Cap;-din Mr. John Blfhop, four perfons, viz. Capt. Philip
tiafkel, Mr. Jofeph Plumber^ Mr.  Epbraim Ellery  and
Mr.-----Smith.  The wind being very  high, before
day,  the fchooner was driven upon the rocks,  called
Ram-head, near  Lovell's Ifland, in the lower harbour.
With great difficu'ty t^e people gr>t upon the ifland,
and  to  their inexpuffible joy,  reached the houfe lately
erected   by  the  Humane Society^  for the prefervation
of fhipwrecked Seamen,  in which they  found  every
neceflary for warming,  drying  and  making them-
felves comfortable.
  The  people all wifh to exprefs their  gratitude to
the Founders of chat benevolent  Inttitution,  and ac-
knowledge that, under God, tSey owe  the prefervation
of their lives 10  the /belter^  and the means  of com-
fort which they f und in if,  as the ni^ht was extremely
cold, and they were entirely wet before it was pofli-
ble for them to g-t upoa the fhore.
   In behalf of  the people  belonging to the fchooner,
      and  the pafTengers on  board,
                       Robert Wilmams,
                            Owner of  the fchooner. 
(   27   )
     Premiums  adjudged by  the Society.
     THE Society with great pleafure announce to the
      public  the exertions  of fuch of their fellow-
citizens  as have been  inftrumental  in  faving from
death a number of perfons who  muft  otherwife inevi-
tably have perifhed ;  and as a  reward  for  fuch exer-
tions they have adjudged the following Premiums:—

   To Mr. Sloane, for faving a Boy who had fallen
through the ice into the mill-pond, and who had re-
peatedly funk to the bottom when  young Mr. Sloane
difcovered him,  and  without taking  off his cloaths.
 plung'd into the water and brought him to the fhore,
 where by the ufe of proper means  he was recovered.
 —One Guinea.

   To Mr. Gleafon, for a fimilar exertion,  in faving
 the child of Mr. Hollis, who had fallen from a wharf
 and was drowning ; the fum of One Guinea.

   To Ebenezer Herring, jun. for faving  a  Boy who
 had broken through the ice and fallen into the channel
 in Charles-river ; the fum of Twenty Shillings.—The
 Boy in  this  inftance faved himfelf from finking by
 holding upon the edge of the  ice until he  was dragg'd
 out of the water by  young Herring, with no fmall
 rifque of breaking in himfelf. 
 
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