Rescusci-Anne
May. 2nd, 2025 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I now know how to perform CPR.
If you don't crack a few ribs you ain't doing it right.
And since a person who needs CPR is officially classed as dead you can't hurt them- or lay yourself open to prosecution. If you smash 'em up you've only damaged a corpse and if you bring 'em back to life (which is statistically unlikely) you'll have done a great and wonderful thing.
Dawn got this guy from a local company to come and give us instruction. He had us practising on Resusci Anne dolls- which have faces modelled on this long-dead lady- L'Inconnue de Seine- and thereby hangs a tale.
The legend goes that L'Inconnue was fished out of the river Seine c.1880- and the pathologist was so taken with her beauty that he made a death mask and someone else made copies for sale and the thing went viral- and no decadent poet or artist of the turn of the century would have been seen dead without a version of the lady hanging on his wall. Experts now doubt her origin story- because drowned bodies bloat- but the rest is perfectly true.
And she's still with us. And serving humanity nearly 150 years after her death. You couldn't make it up. Or you could but no-one would believe you.....
If you don't crack a few ribs you ain't doing it right.
And since a person who needs CPR is officially classed as dead you can't hurt them- or lay yourself open to prosecution. If you smash 'em up you've only damaged a corpse and if you bring 'em back to life (which is statistically unlikely) you'll have done a great and wonderful thing.
Dawn got this guy from a local company to come and give us instruction. He had us practising on Resusci Anne dolls- which have faces modelled on this long-dead lady- L'Inconnue de Seine- and thereby hangs a tale.
The legend goes that L'Inconnue was fished out of the river Seine c.1880- and the pathologist was so taken with her beauty that he made a death mask and someone else made copies for sale and the thing went viral- and no decadent poet or artist of the turn of the century would have been seen dead without a version of the lady hanging on his wall. Experts now doubt her origin story- because drowned bodies bloat- but the rest is perfectly true.
And she's still with us. And serving humanity nearly 150 years after her death. You couldn't make it up. Or you could but no-one would believe you.....
