Jan. 20th, 2010
QotD: on belief and fasting girls
Jan. 20th, 2010 05:21 pmIt seems that no proposition that can be made is so absurd or impossible but that many people, ordinarily regarded as intelligent, will be found to accept it and to aid in its propagation. And hence, when it is asserted that a young lady has lived for fourteen years without food of any kind, hundreds and thousands of persons throughout the length and breadth of a civilized land at once yield their belief to the monstrous declaration.
--William A Hammond, Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology, 1879
(p102, The Fasting Girl, by Michelle Stacey)
--William A Hammond, Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology, 1879
(p102, The Fasting Girl, by Michelle Stacey)
What to do for a choking victim?
Jan. 20th, 2010 06:57 pmI can't tell you how many times I've been taught the Heimlich maneuver in CPR and first aid classes. Plenty. Well over 20 years worth of certifications and re-certifications. So I've been trained. In my last recert (2009) we were taught back slaps for infants, and they called the uncorking procedure used on adults "abdominal thrusts". It seems that pretty much everybody knows about the Heimlich maneuver. ( But maybe there are better emergency treatments for choking. At the very least, there are options. )