The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-11
DEAD MN LIVES AGAIN
Jean SouIie, Dead as a Ham
mer, Reused by DR.. Tuffier.
ONE SLIGHT DRAWBACK
Is That the Doctor Has to Let
Him Die Again.


Paris March 10.-The correspondent fol
the New York Journal says:
A dead man has been brought 20 life
in this city It was done by surgery and
mechanical means.
The man who performed the operation
is DR.. Tuffier, of the Hospital de Ia Pitie.
In a statement written by him for the
Journal, he explains exactly how ne did
it. He further answered every question
the writer put to him on the subject
DR.. Tufier manipulates the heart of the
dead and thereby restores the circulation,
/ life and consciousness
He had previously accom- )lished this sue
/ cessfully with numbers OF warm-bIooded
lower animals. Associated with him in
! these experiments are his assistant, Dr..
Dumont, and DR.. Halion, of the College
! de France. They state tina t they have re-
stored life to fifty animals
! Recently Dr.. Tufier was lecturing in the
/ Hospital de Ia Pitie when word was
| brought to him that one of his patien 5
| had just died. This was Jean Soulie, an
artist, age twenty-four. He died of ap-
| pendicitis. His previous health had been
fair and his heart was sound.
The man was scientifically dead" The
most delicate instruments failed to detect
either pulse 0 respiration. The tests
which surgeons know and which are alb
! solute-as. for instance, scorching the skin
of one of the extremities-was resorted
to- The result of the test was to show
that the man was dead.
1t was then that DR.. Tuffier, surrounded
by his pupils, performed such an operation
as has never before been attempted upon
man
He laid bare with a stroke Of his seal
pei the tissues everything the fifth and
! sixth ribs of the left side.
His assistants applied tenacula-two-
pronged hooks for drawing membranes
one side.
The surgeon picked up a small saw and
severed the bony part Of the two ribs;
heavy pair Of cutting pliers performed
the same work on the cardla ginous por
tons, the scalpel passed quickly around
the freed ends and the liberated piece was
lifted from the cavity.
Thus there was made a gateway to the
very centre of life.
With curved scissors DR.. TUffier incised
the pleural cavity and there lay beneath
his hand the surface of the lower lobe OF
the left lung A little higher up and to
the left could be seen the apex of the
heart.
There was a movement in the heart,
none in the lungs. Many a small vein had
been severed by the knife and scissors of
the surgeon, but no blood had flowed.
There had been a slight oozing Of REDEEM
ed lymph, but there was none of that
sharp, quick squirt of red blood that fol-
lows the knife in It's track through living
tissue.
You see, gentlemen" said DR.. Tuf1er,
"the condition Of both heart and lungs
shows that the subject IS dead"
While he talked, and as the pupils look
ed, Dr. Tuffier, with a handful of little
tweezers, was busy about the wound in
the patients side. A series of short clicks
followed his def hands, and,as he brought
them away, it was seen that to the end
Of every small vein there hung a little
pair of hamostatic forceps which should
check any flow of blood.
II had taken a minute or two to do
these things, but there was no movement
from the body under the surgeons hands.
The eyes were half opened, but watch
ing student had failed to detect any
change in the pupils from the first touch
of the knife until the last.
Undoubtedly the man is dead" they
said to one another.
Dr. Tuffier withdrew his right hand from
! a basin of warm water which a nurse
{ held 10 him.
1.-The water is the temperature Of the
| human body in health" he told those who
watched.
| Then. palm upward, he thrust his hand
into the wound, moved the lobe of the
| lung aside and grasped the stilled heart
of the body.
! The surgeons thumb rested upon the
right verticle. the other fingers of his hand
/ had sought and found the base Of the right
aurcle.
"To you who have followed the lectures
| of the classes it is but necessary to sug-
/ gest the purpose Of this" said DR.. TUT
/ fer. as he paused an instant. From the
r.cht auricle. on which my fingers rest,
! the blood during life. passes to the right
ventricle. upon which my thumb IS placed.
/ Thence Ic is borne by the pulmonary ar
/ terry into the lungs. The blood arterialized
/ ny the lungs, is returned TO the left side
{ 20 the lungs. Observation-Disclosures
/ Of the heart by the pulmonary veins.
/ Thence it goes from the left aur.cIe into
| the left venJricle, and n thence distribute
/ ed ~ the aorta and its tributaries %
/ every part Of che body. That is Jhe sys-
/ ten of circulation in the adult
1T IS my purpose. by COMPRISING the
right aur.cle with my fingers. 70 force
! blood into the lungs and 20 set in motion
| again the whole mechanism Of life.
Watch"
\ sight contraction Of ;hs surgeons
wrist marked he inception o. -hs- the
most daring experiment ever -rei upon
man. Next instant those watching saw
Dr. Tufier's thumb sink slowly and
---'~-.---------~--------------