ould be drank in preference to wine or spirits,
either of which are generally hurtful. The diet should be light and
nourishing, easy of digestion, and taken in moderation. Horseradish,
onions and garlic, may be used instead of foreign spices; but tea,
coffee, and punch, are alike improper.

DROWNING. If a person unfortunately fall into the water, and is supposed
to be drowned, he should be carefully undressed as soon as he is taken
out; then laid on a bed or mattrass in a warm apartment, with the head
and upper part a little raised, and the nostrils cleaned with a feather
dipped in oil. Let the body be gently rubbed with common salt, or with
flannels dipped in spirits; the pit of the stomach fomented with hot
brandy, the temples stimulated with spirits of hartshorn, and bladders
of lukewarm water applied to different parts of the body, or a
warming-pan wrapped in flannel gently moved along the back. A warm bath,
gradually increased to seventy-five degrees, would be highly proper; or
the body may be carried to a brewhouse, and covered up with warm grains
for an hour or two. An attempt should be made to inflate the lungs,
either by the help of a pair of bellows, or a person's blowing with his
mouth through the nostril, which in the first instance is much better.
If the patient be very young, or the animation do not appear altogether
suspended, he may be placed in bed between two persons to promote
natural warmth, or covered with blankets or warm flannels. Stimulating
clysters of warm water and salt, or six ounces of brandy, should be
speedily administered. The means should be persevered in for several
hours, as there are instances of persons recovering after all hope was
given up, and they had been abandoned by their attendants. As soon as
the first symptoms of life are discernible, care must be taken to
cherish the vital action by the most gentle and soothing means.
Fomentations of aromatic plants may then be applied to the pit of the
stomach, bladders of warm water placed to the left side, the soles of
the feet rubbed with salt, and a little white wine dropped on the
tongue. The patient should then be left in a quiet state till able to
drink a little warm wine, or tea mixed with a few drops of vinegar. The
absurd practice of rolling persons on casks, lifting the feet over the
shoulders, and suffering the head to remain downwards, in order to
discharge the water, has occasioned the loss of many lives, as it is now
full