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med_cat: (Holmes amused)
med_cat: (Holmes amused)

LOL

Jan. 26th, 2010 at 5:51 PM
med_cat: (Holmes amused)
Am sitting here laughing hysterically...thanks to [livejournal.com profile] endgegner07 for the link!  The website discusses history of CPR...

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3000 BC

Mayan hieroglyphics and Peruvian Incas performed resuscitation by rectal fumigation. One can only surmise that while not very successful this technique certainly kept anyone from faking a heart attack to get off work for the day.
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Source: www.texasonsitecpr.com/History.html

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[identity profile] wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com
Jan. 26th, 2010 11:01 pm (UTC)
YIKES !!!! I have a soft spot for the Mayan's because they were a very sophiscated civilisation for it's time, apart from ripping out hearts !!! But this is hillarious !!! :D
med_cat: (Watson amused)
[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 26th, 2010 11:32 pm (UTC)
Glad you enjoyed ;)
[identity profile] rabidsamfan.livejournal.com
Jan. 26th, 2010 11:05 pm (UTC)
Thing is, it must have worked *some* of the time, or they wouldn't have kept doing it.
med_cat: (progress notes notebook)
[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 26th, 2010 11:33 pm (UTC)
Dear me, one wonders...I'm thinking it would have revived those who merely lost consciousness...
[identity profile] ex-primaver.livejournal.com
Jan. 26th, 2010 11:42 pm (UTC)
мда ужь

*задумалась о вечном*
med_cat: (JB as Hamlet)
[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 27th, 2010 12:17 am (UTC)
Quite :)
[identity profile] sirius-nst.livejournal.com
Jan. 27th, 2010 08:01 am (UTC)
Rectal fumigation? Whoa boy.
med_cat: (H&W what?)
[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 27th, 2010 11:49 am (UTC)
I know...isn't that something?! Love your icon, BTW ;)
[identity profile] endgegner07.livejournal.com
Jan. 27th, 2010 06:06 pm (UTC)
O_O!!!!!!


lol xD
med_cat: (Bones McCoy)
[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 27th, 2010 06:12 pm (UTC)
Yup, that was _my_ reaction as well...shall have to print that page and show it to the CPR and telemetry class instructors! I can just see their faces! LOL
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