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let them simmer together over a slow fire forty-eight hours, when it will be fit for use. Take a teacup full three times a day.

drowned personsdirections for recovering.

THE following directions have been published by the Dublin Humane Society:—

"What thou doest, do quickly."

1. Convey the body carefully, with the head a little raised to the nearest convenient house.

2. Strip and dry the body; clean the mouth and nostrils.

3. An adult lay the body on a bed or blanket near the fire or in a warm chamber; if in the summer, expose it to the sun.

4. A child; place it between two persons in a warm bed.

5. Rub the body gently with flannel, sprinkled with spirits.

6. Restore breathing by introducing the pipe of a bellows (where the apparatus cannot be immediately procured) into one nostril, keeping the other and the mouth closed, gently inflate the lungs, alternately compress the breast, and then let the mouth and nostrils free.

7. Apply warm bricks to the soles of the feet, and warm spirits to the palms of the hands, and the pit of the stomach.