cold. Keep it covered for use; and whenever troubled with straitness at the stomach, or shortness of breath, take some of the electuary on a bruised stick of liquorice, which will very soon give relief.

METHOD OF RESTORING TO LIFE DROWNED PERSONS.

The greatest exertion should be used to take out the body before the elapse of one hour, and the resuscitative process should be immediately employed.

On taking bodies out of rivers, ponds, &c. the following cautions are to be used:

1. Never to be held up by the heels.

2. Not to be rolled on casks, or to suffer any other rough usage.

3. Avoid the use of salt in all cases of apparent death. Particularly observe to do every thing with the utmost promptitude.

For the drowned, attend to the following directions: 1. Convey the body, with the head raised, to the nearest convenient house.

2. Strip and dry the body: clean the mouth and nostrils. 3. For young children: place the body between two persons in a warm bed.

4. For an adult: lay the body on a warm blanket, or bed; and in cold weather, near the fire. In the warm season, air should be freely admitted.

5. It is to be gently rubbed with flannel sprinkled with spirits; and a heated warming-pan, covered, lightly moved over the back and spine.

6. To restore breathing: introduce the pipe of a pair of bellows (when you have no apparatus) into one nostril; close the mouth and the other nostril, then inflate the lungs, till the breast be a little raised; the mouth and nostrils must then be let free. Repeat this process till life appears.

7. Tobacco smoke is to be thrown gently up the fundament, with a proper instrument, or the bowl of a pipe covered so as to defend the mouth of the assistant.

8. The breast is to be fomented with hot spirits: if no signs of life appear, the warm bath to be used; or hot bricks, &c. applied to the palms of the hands, and the soles of the feet.

9. Electricity, to be early employed by a medical assistant. 10. The breath is the principal thing to be attended to.

INTEREST, TABLE.

729

Shewing, at one View, what any Sum, from One Pound to One Thousand per Annum, is per Calendar Month, Week, or Day.

It is hoped that the foregoing tables will be found to contain every thing which usually falls within the compass of female employment.

With respect to the Interest Table, it is only necessary to remark, that, by a little calculation, the interest for any time less than a month may be found, near enough for common purposes, by the application of the Rule of Division.