Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-29
RESTORED LIFE TO A DEAF MAN.

New York journal: A dead man has
been brought to life in this city. 1t was
done by surgery and mechanical means.
The man who performed the operation
is DR.. Tutfier of the Hospital de la Pitie.
In a statement written by him for the
Sunday journal he explains exactly how
he did it. He further answered every
question the writer put to him On.the sub
ject.
DR.. Tufier ~manipulates the heart of
the dead and thereby restores the circula-
ton, life and consciousness.
He had previously accomplished this
successfully with numbers of warm
blooded lower animals Associated with
him in these experiments are his assist
ant, DR.. Dumont, and DR.. Hallion, Of the
College de France. They state that they
have restored life to so animals.
Recently DR.. Tutfier was lecturing in
the Hospital de la Pitie when word was
brought to him that one of the patients
had just died. This was Jean Soulie, an
artist, aged "a. He died of appendicitis.
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 or respiration. The tests
which surgeons know and which are alb
| solute-as, for instance, scorching the
skin of one of the acknowledgements re-
sorted to. The result of the tests was to
| S1lOW TIA LIE llldil uCoN.
1t was then that DR.. Tutfier, surround
ed by his pupils, performed such an OPP
Grafton as has never before been attempt
ed upon man. ..
He laid bare with a stroke of his scalpel
the tissues everything the fifth and sixth
rib of the left side. er-. I....- 81
His assistants applied tenacula-two-
pronged hooks for drawing membranes
aside from the field of o~peration-and
pulled the fleshy covering of the bones to
one side.
The surgeon picked up a small saw and
severed the bony part of the TWO ribs; a
heavy pair of cutting pliers performed the
same work on the cartilaginous portions,
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 center 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 tc
the left could be seen the apex of the
heart.
There was no movement in the heart
none in the lungs. Many a small vein hao
been several by the knife and scissors OF
the urgeon, but no blood had flowed
There had been a slight oozing of redden,
ed lymph, but there was none of thai
sharp quick squirt of red blood that fol
lows the knife in it's track through living
tissue.
You see, gentlemen" said DR.. Tuffier
"the condition of both heart and lungs
shows hat 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 1r
the patients side. A series of short clicks
followed his deft hands, and, as III
brought them away, it was seen that tc
the end Of every sma vein there hung 9
little pair of homostatic forceps which
should check any flow of blood.
1t had taken a minute or two to &c
these things, but there was no movement
from the body under the surgeons hands
! The eyes were half opened, but a watch
ing student had failed to detect any
= change in the pupils from the first touci
;, of the knife until the last.
Undoubtedly the man is dead, they
said to one another.
Il DR.. Tuffier withdrew his right hant
from a basin of warm water which {
nurse held to him.
? 1.-THE water is the temperature Of the
human body in health" he told those
who watched.
l.. Then. palm upward, he thrust his hant
2 into the wound, moved the lobe of th'
= lung aside and grasped the stilled hear
of the body.