The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-11-02
BREATH IN D.gAD MEN
STARTLING easuLTs Or A NEW JER-
sEY DOCTORS EXPERIMENTS.

lie Has Made simple ApenEatus with
Which the Longs May Beseut to Work
After Thg Haye o.,essssops.d- -It Is Not
Patented md A.s o~s csn flake 1t.
On. Edwfn ii Brsnsst rsssaic, N. j.,
makes the arnonnc ensuSt IS riding the
time honored statemedn IS man has
died from lack Of lTessA- IL breath
was all he needed Is saor We lived.
Considering thai air is Ia lost plen-
tiful resource of nRtpEs, hg {, as polit-
ical economists wee: say, ise value be-
cause of its abundance. one 9uld think
that DR.. De Baum had made 20 particu-
lar discovery. But there is lore in his
statement than is apparent at first.
From time in4mencTial physicians
have directed their ingenuity coward an
effective application of this wealth Of
air. but without satisfactory results.
Cases of suspended animation come I'M
der their notice every day Men are
rescued from the water after hard bat
tie with the waves, their lungs filed with
water, the nfe's action SUSPENDED. In
the majority Of instances restoration of
animation cannot be effected. The lungs
may be emptied of the wa&er; the life
giving air, so abundaat, is at hand-and
il it could only be forced into the organs
and respiration started life could be re-
newed. Physicians efforts to solve the
problem have been unceasing, but, says
DIR. De Baum, misdirected
When man is rescued from the wa
ter, the first thing done is to empty the
lungs of water by rolling him on bar
rel or lifting him from the ground head
downward. Then he is laid on his
back, the arms raised to expand the
lungs and a ryhthmic contraction and
expansion of the chest walls effected by
alternate pressure and relaxation. Some
times the forcing process has been kept
up for hours with ultimate success, but
considering the possibilities recognized
in artificial respiration the results have
been far from encouraging.
Dr.. De Baum has worked On an entire
ly new line, and the result Of his expert
ments and observation isss method Of
internal respiration, which, he claims,
cannot possibly fail. His attention was
first directed to the suBJect by case of
suspended animation in pewly born
child. 1t has been the practice in such
cases to force air into the lungs of the
infant by breathing into It's mouth and
then contracting the lungs by pressure
upon the chest. But this'hag been found
not only intensely disag<eeabss, but High
ly inefficient. Az
DR.. De Baum decided,te ~. new ex-
pedient. He passed sssaIl Rubber tube
through the nose of the ASsst and down
into the throat. Closing ~ mouth, he
forced air through the fSSs Aom a rub
Der bag, initiating the Azassa saaen, releas-
ing the pressure Aroma ac useuth, found,
as expected. aat me elasticity of the
muscles of TIE oitest ssxsSea immediate
contraction Of the lunss. sg9sing COM
plete respirsSssn. Tss vsaS kept up for
Is minutes, when natural respiration
had been restored, and Eae had been
saved. Since then DR.. Do Bran has per-
fected this hastily ilnprovised apparatus
and finds that animation may be often
restored within Is mislJHsses
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