Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-30
BROUGHT BACK TOLIFE.
Remarkable Case ofResuscitation-AP Ply
sicianss Strange Story.

sician,s Strange Story.
CHICAGO, September 29.-The EreRiHg
Journal to-day publishes case ofremark-
able resuscitation from the supposed death
ola young married woman named Mrs.
Frazer, the daughter of Mr.. T. II. Steph-
ems, who, with his family came here from
New York to live some three years ago. On
July 80 last. Mrs. Frazer gave birth to a
child, and in August, after several days of
illness, was pronounced dead by one of her
attending physicians, DIR. Mark H. Lack
erton, who was also attending Mrs. Frazer
says:
II did everything l could think of TO
restore respiration, without effect. Ten
minutes must have elapsed, though l was
not in position to watch the passage of
time. Then it suddenly struck me that l
would like to try hypOdermic injection
of solution of fnitro-glycerine. took up
ten drops of and let the corpse have the
full benefit of it. The first minute there
was not pulsation, but just gasp; that
was all. | looked at my watch and there
were four such gaSps distributed over the
first sixty seconds, but that is not life. In
the second minnie there were six respira-
tions and a slight heart pulse could
be heard, bStaA~Re pulse could be
felt. In the third minute
there were eighteen respiratiOns, and
the pulse became distinctly perceptible at
the wrist. In the fourth minute it was
$50 and upward, so that it could not be
counted. Her face flushed, her eyes began
to roll in their sockets, and all the muscles
relaxed from the extreme stiffness of death.
All the contraction of the limbs gradually
relaxed. Speculation came back to her
ewes and she became conscious. In my
opinion in all causes of shock or collapse
this thing ought to be tried before they
are given over for lost. There is nothing
peculiar or sensational about it at all.
The only thing is, | have been the first
person to try it. If ever | have saved a
life, it is this one"
The doctor also relates the following:
''The lady is q young woman between l9
and 20 years of aye. She was delivered
July 80 of male child under very great
difficulty: it was IN instrumental case.
She was up and about, but in the middle
of August began to complain of little
pain. On the oath day of the month she
seemed to have collie pains, which con-
tinued off and on and until the evening Of
the 25th, when the pains became very Sc
we're and / was sent for.
81 have here, taking from his vest
pocket little bottle filled with n clear
fluid like water) per cent solution OF
nitro-glycerine. 1t is remedy which for
some little time has been used for epilepsy
and things of that sort, and for some forms
of kidney trouble also. 1t has an effect on
the blood vessels, the lentron blood YES
sels-arteries. We give it in doses of
one drop, drop and half, two drops,
or maybe three drops in some cases. We
give it through the mouth. 1t was never
before given hypOdermically So far rs
am aware till made the trial, with sue
cess. 1t was case of gall-stOnes. Many
persons die of shock. As they try to pass
the stones they gradually sink and sink
away from pain and die from shock or col
lapse. On the night of the Both she col
lapsed lost her pulse, her heart ceased to
beat. and she ceased to breathe. Her tenn
pcraturc fell TO | do not know how low,
for our thermometers do not begin to reg
lister low enough. They are only marked
to 80 degrees, but think her temperature
must have been down to II degrees ut
least Her father, mother, brother and
husband stood around her bed, and all had
given her up for dead. They spoke OF her
in the past tense, and they were very sor-
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