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Saving a Drowned Boy With Salt and Warmth Rescue
A boy presumed dead was revived after a man stripped his clothes, rubbed him with salt, and kept him warm with blankets. The rescue continued for about two hours until life signs returned and the boy could recount how he fell in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotflan
Edinburgh
Portfoy
Mearns
London
West-Indies
Vienna
Constantinople
Sieur-Boscamp
Porte
Havaanah
Martinique
England
Havannah
Lord Albemarle
Rippon
Namur
Secretary of State
Duke of Rutland
Marquis of Granby
Canterbury
Calais
Dover
Pitt
Lord Mansfield
Fuftice Clive
City of York
Sar
Guildhall
Yorkhire
Castle of York
Lancash
Castle of Lancaster
Norfolk
Fuftice Pratt
Baron Adams
Bucks
Aylesbury
Bedfordshire
Bedford
Huntingdonshire
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge
Thetford
Suffolk
Bury St. Edmund’s
Midland
Baron Parker
Fuffice Bathurst
Rutland
Okeham
Lincolnsh
Castle of
Lincoln
City of
Nottinghamshire
Nottingham
Derbyshire
Derby
LeiceRerth
Leicester
Borough of
Coventry
Warwickshire
Warwick
Northamptontshire
Northampton
James Lowther
Chestern
Westmoreland
Cadiz
Brest
Falmouth
France
Riga
Ostend
North Sea
Green
Poole
Newfoundland
Friday
Saffron-hill
Jockey James
Hockley
Tottenham Court, &c
John James
Rooker
Water Lane
Fleet-street
Ealing Common