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Ligutntne.—If the person shows no signs of life, strip and dash. the. body with cold water, dry and place in bed with bottles of hot water at the pit of the stomach and extremities, keeping up artificial respiration until the nat- ural breathing is restored; a tea-spoon of brandy in a table-spoon of water may be given every few minutes. Burns from lightning should be treated like burns from any other cause. Breakine THrovucH Ice.—In assisting persons who have broken through ice, get a long pole, or stick, or board, to distribute the weight over a greater surface of ice. In attempting to get out of water upon the ice, after having fallen in, the best way is to approach it sidewise, and roll out rather than to attempt to raise the body up by the arms alone, as the weight is more widely distributed. Hanainc.—Death is from .the same cause as in drowning. Cut down the body without allowing it to fall, place on face, press back tongue with finger to allow any accumulation to escape from the mouth, place on the back, and treat as directed for the drowned. If body is still warm after the remoyal of clothing, stand off six feet and dash several times with a bow! of cold water, the face, neck, and chest. Burninc-Houses.—When a house is on fire, close all the doors and pre vent currents of air. If the fire could be entirely shut in, it would smother and die out. The check will give time to get help, or, at least, to remove furniture and make all lives secure. If up-stairs when the stairway below is on fire, tear clothing to make cords to let yourself down by. If a room ig full of smoke and flame, crawl on the floor, as the lower air is the colder and more free from smoke. ; Forreicn Bopies 1n THE EAr.—Take the head of the child between the knees, face downward, and inject a stream of warm water into the ear, hold- ing the nozzle of the syringe outside, so as to allow the foreign body to came out with the water. Probing, with any substance whatever, is very dan- gerous, and may inflict permanent injury. When the above plan does not succeed, call a surgeon. Kill insects that get into the ear by pouring in 8weet-oil or glycerine, wk “th drowns and brings them to the surface t n NG, Se FRR STR DS \ 4 : 3 ‘ : ‘ Ke ; ap 4 | oe : “i , 494 AQCIDENTS AND SUDDEN SICKNESS. Forrien Bopy 1n Nostriu.—Children often push foreign bodies up the nostril. To remove it, make the child draw a full breath, and then, closing the other nostril with the finger, and the mouth with the hand, expel the air from the lungs by a sharp blow on the back. If it can not be removed in this way, compress the nostril above it to prevent its going up any further, ‘and hook it out with the bent end of a wire or bodkin. If this fails, call a surgeon. ; ( FREEzZING.—Keep the frozen person, or part, away from the heat. If the person is insensible, take him to acold room, remove clothing, rub with snow. or clothes wrung out of ice-water. The cold friction should be kept up for some time; and when the frozen parts show signs of life, the patient should be carefully dried and put into a cold bed in a cold room, and artificial res- piration used until the natural is restored; and then brandy, beef-tea, and ginger-tea administered. The patient must be brought by degrees into the warmer air. Parts frozen should be treated by the same rule.