How to Resuscitate a Drowning Victim in 1916
First, be quick; lose no time; every second counts in the race with death.
Second, loosen all clothing.
Third, lift the body between you, with the head hanging down … Grasp it by the upper arms with a good hold and seize the front part of the legs with the hands by passing the arms between them.
Fourth, shake the body up and down two or three times so as to free the mouth and nostrils from slime and water.
Fifth, place the victim upon his back …
Sixth, draw the tongue well forward and tie it with your handkerchief so that it will not fall back and block the pharynx, thus choking the individual and making all your efforts useless.
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Oh, the Diseases You’ll Catch! Dr. Seuss’s WWII Foray Into Public Health
He was probably too busy as a U.S. Army captain to bother finding anything to rhyme with “malaria,” but the good Theodor Geisel did take the time to personify the Anopheles mosquito as a vixen named Ann out to tempt unwary soldiers into an undignified death. In his typical whimsical style, adjusted to a slightly older audience, he warned young G.I.s to keep their pants (and the rest of their clothes) on: “If you go running around as a strip teaser, you haven’t got a chance.”
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Taliban Demands Unbiased Coverage of Its Attempted Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl
You shoot one 14-year-old girl in the head and you’ll never hear the end of it. So goes the lament of Pakistan’s Taliban insurgency following a spate of bad press in mainstream Pakistani outlets related to the jihadists’ failed assassination attempt of Malala Yousafzai, a young blogger who dared protest the Taliban’s ban on educating girls. Now the Taliban are plotting terror strikes on TV stations and other media organizations, but local newspapers refuse to stay silent.
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Taliban Demands Unbiased Coverage of Its Attempted Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl
You shoot one 14-year-old girl in the head and you’ll never hear the end of it. So goes the lament of Pakistan’s Taliban insurgency following a spate of bad press in mainstream Pakistani outlets related to the jihadists’ failed assassination attempt of Malala Yousafzai, a young blogger who dared protest the Taliban’s ban on educating girls. Now the Taliban are plotting terror strikes on TV stations and other media organizations, but local newspapers refuse to stay silent.
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