The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-10
BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE
POSSIBILITY Or REsUsciTATlNG ALL
DEAD PEOPLE.

OccuTred-Soc2e Cases Were the Dead
Wore Brought Back to Life.
The unfortunate cage q the mind read
er, Bishop, upon whom = too previous
autopsy WIS Performed, IS likely to effect
lasting coed to hnas2ity. Before it oc-
cursed cases OF apparent yet lot resi- death
were held to be soe1trsrnsly rare that not
one in a thousand Of the sensational re-
ports of such were believed by Physicians
to have any foundatian whatever; but
they have been caFsfrny studying the sub
ject and making thorough Investigations,
and the most OF them are now ready TO ac-
cept that persons are too often considered
as being dead when they are not so IN real
ity. Many such cases, absolutely Guthen-
tic, have been reported.
DR.. Clark, Of Indianapolis, tells of sew
eral recent cases in his section. One was
that Of woman in Stor benWlle, O.. who
was pronounced dead by six physicians,
and yet Lie returned after fourteen days
Another, or a women in st. Louis, in
whom only slight sign Of life was acct
dentally discovered just before the coffin
was to be closed. NJ BroQGrdel, a French
physician, has written upon this subject
and brought out much Of interest. He
considers that the newly born, also young
children and aged AID enfeebled persons,
are especially Ersdispossd TO apparent
death. He believes that in infectious dis
eases and algid fevers there are a good
many examples Of resurrection; the pto-
maines he conEiders to have characteristic
anesthetic Properties; injected into
frog, the latser assumes any given cata-
leptic properties that may be desired.
The physician Is most apt TO be deceived
by hysteEical persons, who are capable of
living ike hibernatinE animals. In per-
sons convalesGing from grave diseases syn
cope IS easily induced a5 the moment the
patient rises; the deficient cerebral circula-
ton and venous stagnation IN the lower
limbs are favorable conditions TO the &C.
currence of apparen: doaJh. Il. BTouar-
del relates the case of q criminal who was
hung in Boston at 10 Il. n, taken down at
twenty-five minutes past 10 q. n. and
transferred to the anatomical a.nphithea-
tire an hour thereafter, when his pulse re-
commenced to beat On opening the tho
rax the pulse was seen TO beat forty min
ute, and it stopped Beating ct a quarter to
Sp. N. Hoffman tails Of similar case.
TIE DEAD BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.
During the past two years many cases Of
recovery after apparent death from cleo
tricity have been reported, and in some of
them there was no sign of life for be-
tween two and three hCurs. Il. Lester re-
corded seven cases where the subjects,
under the action of lightning, had re-
manned apparently dead for periods vary
ing from several minutes to three hours.
Physicians who took the observations
stated that no pulse could be felt at all,
the excitation having been strong enough
to stop the hearts aston. a few years
ago scarcely phyai1tan could be found
who believed i possible fer person to re-
turn to life after having been buried even
for day. But now the fact finds ready
acceptance that people have been buried
from eight to fifteen days and yet been re-
suscitated.
An interesting and physiological fact
bearing upon this subject has recently
been brought out By experiments upon
dogs with curare, the substance which the
South American Indian uses to poison his
arrows. This poison paraIyzes the lungs
first and afterward the Heart, and when
given to dogs they generally fall apparent
II dead within five minutes. But in all
instances where artificial respiration was
commenced before the heart stopped and
persisted in for a sufficient length of time,
recovery took place, the heart being by
this means kept at work until the poison
was eliminated by the lung. Accidents in
which occur much the same physiological
changes as are produced by cQrare are not
very iufrequent, and from these conclu-
sions of value can be drawn. Deaths I'M
der chlorofoEm and ether are occasionally
reported. In this class Of cases the hope
of resuscitation wotld seem to Re even
greater than is usual in those of sudden
death.
Where a person who has been under
treatment appears to have died, even if
suddenly and unexpectedly, it Is quite a
common custom Of tie relatives among
all classes to depend upon THAR own dag
nosis Of death and to at once lay cut the
body, send for the undertaken, etc.
WHAT PHYSICIANS MIGHT Do.
The doctor is usually informed of the
unhappy occurrence; seldom, however,
until several hours afterward. the princi-
pal object of notifying him being TO pre-
vent his making another visit. Very
likely, in consequence Of this custom, many
lives are lost which might be saved were
the physician called at once and efforts to
resuscitate were made by him
There is one point TO be considered in
this connection. In cases Of sickness people
generally show the least possible sense 1t
is a notorious fact that IN every case Of
death except from some such chronic dis
ease as consumption or cancer, they viii
lay the blame on the attending physician,
if it is r possible thing TO do. Were he
called in directly after a patient Of his had
died and he at once employed artificial
respiration or tried to stimulate the heart
by hypodcTmic injections the chances ara
that the relatives and friends would Jump
to the conclusion that be had been giving
g. medicine Ii oTeEdose5, and had poisoned
in consequence and WIS now endeaTorIng |
to resuscitate his victim. The more intel |
hgent reader would think this absurd, and
yet few years IN the practice O. medicine
wouh convince him 90 the contrary.
Dr.. Clark, IN adYisirs young physicians,
urges them in eases of death By drowning |
not to fail 10 use electricity II their efforts
TO resuscit tate He says that 1ne point Of
differentiation as TO the probability Of re-
suscitstion in a os.se Of drowning - wheth- |
eF it was suicidal or accidental. r,e sui |
eide cannot be saved after I've Csrfutes of !
suhnergelce, but tbs accidentally drowned
may be submerged twenty and possibly !
thirty minutes, and yeS be SzIsc@ated !
The horrar and revT.kioa Ct fesiE4g and |
fesr OF dolth OF the lS.tc- are ROT present !
IN the former, and tins izsfGaaco- ga The
mech snisp Of tie heart Ea-zy ssc1SOas foT |
the a4.IsEsD2a- ''PerssySEs ~ ySEf sffoTts. /.
IS lie hi-s been restored IL drowning cases |
aftsr foEr bOgrs Sr1.-BcScon hurzld-
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