THE MESS TRICK AND THE FAINTING LARK
THE MESS TRICK AND THE FAINTING LARK
复制标题
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.2.4728.382
复制
发表时间:
1951-01-01
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
SHARPEYSCHAFER, EP
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
HOWARD, P;LEATHART, GL;SHARPEYSCHAFER, EP
The following trick is sometimes played in a mess or at a party: a victim is persuaded to hyperventilate for about a minute and then his chest is suddenly compressed by someone standing behind him. He usually loses con-sciousness in a few seconds. A procedure with a similar outcome has been described by a practitioner in a ques-tion to the British Medical Journal:" A colleague has recently mentioned to me a practice which is current in the school attended by his son, aged 12; the practice is known as the'fainting lark.'According to'the description given, a boy desiring to indulge in this' lark'squats on his haunches and takes 20 deep breaths. He then rises quickly to his feet, closes his nostrils with his fingers (as for inflation of the Eustachian tube by Valsalva's method), and blows hard. The immediate result is alleged to be that he drops to the ground and'passes out'for a period of about half a minute."