The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-11

Of course. if the heart can be made 10
supply the brain with food it might re-
sumo its functions Speaking in a gen
eral way, should be inclined 10 think that
| the man on whom DR.. Tuffier conducted
his experiment was not really dead.
| should think that animation was not
really suspended-even, perhaps, that life
| might have been restored without such
| heroic treatment. II is not my purpose to
discredit this discovery, but it is very rad
zeal, and ] would Ike 10 know great
deal more of the technical details of the
matter. I shall await the more lengthy
report which I suppose viii appear in
some of the medical journals, with much
! interest"
Comment by DR.. De Garmo, professor
Of surgery in the New York postgraduate
/ hospital; consulting surgeon White Plains
| hospital; fellow OF the New York academy
| OF Medicine-''I know DR.. Tuffier by name
and reputation, and his statement for that
| reason carries some weight. At the same
! time his declaration that he has restored
/ life 10 a dead man is most radical. One
case does not seem TO me to be sufficient
| to make the statement conclusive. There
! is nothing improbable in the surgical pro-
| cedure. The heart can be examined and
handled without danger. Whether it can
be forced to beat artificialiy is another
matter. If the man Soulie was in a state
| of suspended animation the manipulations
Of the surgfeon might act upon the heart
| as a stimulant-might simulate the ef-
fects of a mild electric shock. The popu-
lar idea that anything which touches the
I ~ = NJ
heart itself is mere muscle and not
particularly sensitive. I can believe that
that if this operation was carried out the
patient would not feel much pain either
from the heart or lungs being touched.
The pericardium and the pleura. however,
both of which would have TO be incised,
are very sensitive. Pain. would be caus-
ed by any interference in that direction.
1 have made some Investigations into the
question of suspended animation, and I
cannot help but thinking that the man
Soulie was in that condition when he fell
under the hands of DR.. Tuffier. There is
a space of time Immediately after appar-
ent death when it might be possible by
mechanical means to bring about a res
toration of function. It might be possible
to keep the man alive for two hours long
er, but find it difficult TO believe that
Soulie could have been literally brought
back to life and enabled to live for years"
Comment by DR.. Charles McBurney, pro-
fessor Of clinical surgery in the New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons; sur
geon of Roosevelt Hospital; consulting
surgeon of st. Luke's, the Presbyterian
and the Orthopedic hospital-"The thing
does not seem to me to be possible. When
a man is really dead I do not thick that
he can be recalled to life by my means
whatsoever. In case Of suspended ANNA
ton 1t is quite another affair 70 say that
a man dies because his heart stops beat
ing is putting the cart before the rorse
The fact is that the heart stops is action
because the man is dead. The centre OF
life is in the brain; not in the heart. The
surgical procedure adopted does not seem
to be out of the way. The heart can be
handled to a certain extent without do
ins any harm to the organ. To say that
dead man has been restored to LIE Seems
TO me to be too radical. Until n UGH fuller
details are given il is practically impossi-
bic to discuss the statement. 1 think that
life was merely in allegiance in this case;
that it was case Of suspended animation;
nothing more"
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