The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-14
BREATH In DEAD MEN.
STARTLING RESULTS OF A NEW JER-
sEy DOCTORS EXPERIMENTS.

He Has Made . Simple Apparatus with
which the Lungs May he Pat TO Work
After They Have Once Stopped--It Is Not
Patented and Amy One Can Make 1t.
DR.. Edwin De Baum of Passaic, N. j.,
makes the announcement regarding the
time honored statement that man has
died from lack Of breath-that IL breath
was all he needed he should have lived.
Considering that air Ia the most plen-
tiful resource Of nature, having, as polit-
ical economists would say, no value be-
cause of it's abundance. one would think
that DR.. De Baum had made no particu-
lar discovery. But there 10 more In his
statement than is apparent at first.
From time immemorial physicians
have directed their ingenuity toward an
effective application of this wealth of
air. but without satisfactory results.
Cases of suspended animation come nm
der their notice every day. Men are
rescued from the water after hard bat
tie with the waves, their lungs filled with
water, the life's action suspended. In
the majority Of instances restoration Of
animation cannot be effected. The lungs
may be emptied of the water; the life
giving air, SO abundant, 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 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.
DIR. De Baum has worked on an entire
ly new line, and the result Of his expert
ments and observation is method of
internal respiration. which, he claims.
cannot possibly fail. His attention was
first directed to the subject by case of
suspended animation in q newly born
child. 1t has been the practice in such
cases to force air into the lungs of, the
| infant by breathing into its mouth and
then contracting the lungs by pressure
upon the chest. But this has been found
not only intensely disagreeable. but high.
| ly inefficient
DIR. De Baum decided to try new ex.
pedient. He passed small rubber tube
through the nose of the infant and down
into the throat. Closing the mouth, ht
forced air through the tube from rub
Der bag, initiating the lungs; then, releas
| ing the pressure from the mouth, found
as expected, that the elasticity of the
muscles of the chest caused immediate
contraction of the lungs, forming com
plete respiration. This was kept mp fol
| As minutes, when natural respiration
had been restored, and life had beer
saved. Since then Dr. De Baum has per
fected this hastily improvised apparatus
and finds that animation may be otter
| restored within Is minutes.
The apparatus is as simple as it is in
genious. 1t consists of long rubber
tube. near one end of which is piece ot
soft rubber with which to cover tn,
mouth and nose. At the other end ar,
two rubber. bulbs. After. the tube ha,