CAPTAIN CREWE READ, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Swansea Coast-guard Division, has forwarded to the Institution the following account of the resuscitation of a sailor apparently dead from drowning :—" At a late hour in the evening of the 28th May, an accident occurred in the Swansea Lock, which, but for the advance lately made in medical science, must inevitably have proved fatal. A sailor, named GEORGE GREENWAY, was returning on board his vessel, when he was suddenly precipitated into the water. Before assistance could be obtained he sank. The bystanders procured a boat-hook, with which, after a few minutes' delay, they grappled for the body, and caught hold of the poor fellow's trousers. Upon bringing him to the surface of the water, the trousers, unable to sustain the weight of the body, broke, and the man was again thrown into the water and sank to the bottom. A man named WILLIAM KNEATH fastened a rope round his body, and descended to the bottom, and at last succeeded in bringing the body to the surface of the water, when they were both brought ashore. These operations occupied from fifteen to twenty minutes.

Mr. JAMES G. HALL, and Mr. T. A. ESSERY, surgeons, resorted to Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S ready method for restoring suspended animation.

After continuing about fifteen to twenty minutes, signs of vitality manifested themselves by means of slight convulsions, and within half an hour the poor fellow was so far recovered as to be able to be removed to the Cornish Mount, and the attentions of the medical practitioners being there renewed, he was soon pronounced out of danger. This is the first case, we believe, in the district of Swansea where the new method has been resorted to; and the man having been in the water at least twenty minutes, the result of the operation is certainly most satisfactory and striking." The medical man expressed his opinion, that the restoration of the man could not have been effected by any other treatment.