Resuscitation in the past, the present and the future.

One of the earliest recordings in Egyptian mythology ofresuscitation was when Isis restored her husband Osiris by breathing into his mouth. The Bible has several accounts of resuscitation using the mouth or nostrils. In Genesis it was recorded that when forming Adam, God is said to have ". . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life". In the first book of Kings, Elijah resuscitated the dying son of his landlady and we are told how he first prayed and then stretched himself along the sick child ". . . and the soul ofthe child came into him again, and he revived". In the second book of Kings it is recorded how Elisha, when summoned to a house where a child had died "up and lay upon the child andput his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; he stretched himself upon him; the flesh of the child waxed warm and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes ".