The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-11-02
BREATH In DEAD MEN
STARTLING nesuLTs q A NEW JER-
sEY DOCTORS EXPERIMENTS.
ie Has Made a Simple Apxnzatus With
which the Lanss May De to Work
After They Have oneessopssd--It Is Not
Patented md A.y one Can Make 1t.

lie Has Made Simple meEatus with
which the Lungs May De Fat to Work
After They Have os,esssopssd 1T Is Not
Patented md A.y oas Can Make It.
DR.. edwin q Bsrsrsst Ftsssic, N. j.,
makes the arnonncenssst r. riding the
time honored Satemodt ~ man has
died from lack Of sSe%sA-4 il breath
was all he needed IL shCg2 We lived. !.
Considering tina: sir is tho lost plen-
tiful resource of nature, hsy {, as polit-.
ical economists wSai say value be-
cause of its abundsnc2 one 9uld think
that DR.. De Baum had made 20 particu-
lar discovery. But theZe is more in his
statement than is apparent al first.
From time iname,nCriGl physicians
have directed their ingenuity loward an
effective application Of this wealth OF
air, but without satisfact0Ey 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 rssboration of
animation cannot be effected. The lungs
may be emptied of the WAGER; the life
giving air, so abundaat, is at hand-and
If it could only be forced into the organs
and respiration started life could be re-
newed. Physicians efforts to solve the
problem have been unceasins, but, says
DR.. De Baum, misdirected
When man is rescued from the wa
ter, the first thing done rs TO empty the
lungs of water by rolling him on bar
rel or lifting him from the ground head
downward. Then he ia 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 is.ss method Of
internal respiration, which, he claims,
cannot possibly fail. His attention was
first directed to the suB5ect by case of
suspended anlIAaIlOu III lieWly uOIu
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 hass by pressure
upon the chest. But this'haS been found
not only intensely disag<eeasse, but High
ly inefficient.
DR.. De Baum decided.te ~, a new ex-
pedient. He passed ssfsp Rubber tube
through the nose of the sfsat and down
into the throat. Closing 81 mouth, he
forced air through tho sSss Rom rub
Der bag, initiating the sxess4 saen, releas-
ing the pressure srera Ac usgtlth, found,
as expected. asat sls elasticity of the
muscles of tss crest sSxxsa immediate
contraction Of the lun5s. sey4sing a COM
plete respirsessn. Trss vsssS kept up for
As minutes, when natural respiration
had been restored, and a Eaa had been
saved Since then DR.. Do E.yHn has per-
fected this hastily ilnprovised apparatus
and finds that animation may be often
restored Within Is rnilutcs.
= The apparatus - si.l. - as it is in
genious. ~ ssnsisss OF a-,-FQg rubber
lube, Near s.seIA.l X NIX "a piece OF