3. Rub the arms and legs, toward the body, but under the covers.
4. Give stimulants only after the patient has recovered enough to swallow, and when there is no serious bleeding.
Stimulants—Strong, hot coffee, or a half teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in a half glass of warm water. The latter may be given if the coffee is not ready.
(b) Apoplexy—When a person has a "stroke" of apoplexy send for the doctor at once.
This condition resembles shock only in that the patient is unconscious. The blow to the delicate brain does not come from the outside along the nerves, but from the inside by the breaking of a blood vessel in the brain, letting the blood out into the brain tissue and forming a clot inside of the brain, and thus making pressure which produces the unconsciousness.
Symptoms of Apoplexy—1. The patient is unconscious.
2. The face is usually flushed—red.
3. The skin is not cold and clammy.
4. The pulse is slow and full.
5. The breathing is snoring instead of shallow.