The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-07-27
4 DARING EXPERIMENT.
DEAD MAN AgruALLy BROUGHT
BACK TO LIFE.
Wonderful Operation Performed by
Or. Tuffier. Head Surgeon Of
q Paris Hospital.

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Paris Hospital.
Paris.-tSpecial.)-A dead man ha.
been brought TO life In this city. II
was done by surgery and mechanical
means.
The man who performed the opera
ton is Or. Tufiier OF the Hospital de la
Uitie. In a statement written by him
for the Sunday New York Journal he
explains exactly how he did It. He
further answered every question the
writer put to him on the subject.
DE-. Tuffier manipulates the heart OF
the dead and thereby restores the cir
culation. life and consciousness.
He had previously accomplished this
successfully with numbers Of warm.
FLOODED lower animals. Associated with
him In these experiments are his as
sistant. Or. Dumont. and DR.. Hallion.
of the College de France. They state
that they have restored to life fifty an
imalE
Recently DR.. Tunier was lecturing in
the Hospital de Ia 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 "scientifcally dead"
The most delicate instruments failed to
detect either pulse or respiration. The
tests which surgeons know and which
are absolute--as. for instance. scorch-
Ing the skin OF one OF the extremeties
were resorted to. The result of the
4 test was to show that the man was
dead.
4 was then that DR.. Tufier, surround
ed by his pupils. performed an opera
tion that has never before been at
tempted upon man.
He laid bare, with stroke Of his
scalpel the tissues everything the NTH
ana sixth ribs OF the left side.
& His assistants applied tenaculs--two-
psonged hooks for drawing membranes
aside from the Held Of operation-and
pulled the fieshy covering Of the bones
Is one side.
The surgeon picked up small saw
and severed the bony part Of the two
ribs:a heavy pair Of cutting pliers per-
formed the same work on the cartilag-
nous portions. the scalpel passed quick
around the freed ends and the liberat-
"a piece was lifted from the cavity.
f Thus there was made gateway 20
The very center Of life.
s With curved scissors Or. Tuffier In
elsed the pleural cavity and there lay
Beneath his hand the surface Of the
lower lobe Of the left lung. A little
Aigiaer up and to the left could be seen
the apex Of the heart.
There was no movement In the heart
and none In the lungs. Many small
vein had been severed by the knife and
scissors Of the surgeon. but no blood
had flowed. There had been q slight
sooxing Of Redeemed lymph. but there
wss none Of that sharp quick squirt
10 red blood that follows the knife In
~ track through living tissue
= You nee. gentlemen, = said DR.. TUNER
shat the condition Of both heart and
llnngs shows that the subject ID dead"
while ne talked, and 40 the pupils
lleoked. Dr.. TUNER. with handful OF
Nttle tweexers. was busy about the
wound Ia the patients side. A series
e short clicks followed HIS delft hands,
ana. q he brought them away II was
essns that 20 the end OF every small vein
thsra hung : little pair Of hemostatic
lsrcsps which should check any new Of
mood.
Il had taken 4 minute or two 10 do
these things. but there was M moves
lnsnt 4ro mths body under the sur-
9eon.s hands. The eyes were half
ap4nsd. but I watching student had
aniled 70 detect any change IN the pupils
gsom ths Arst touch Of the knife until
~ Inst
sIJndoubtedly tho man 4 dead. !" they
ia u one another.
4 ~. TUNER withdrew his rignt hand
Nun ! basin of warm watsr which
1irse hald % him.
NJ water b the temperature Of the
nuI,an Sody a hsaith.s he told those
~ watcAed.
paiIns upward. No thrust his
Aand Int M wound. moved the lobe
6eE4hs lung lido ana sraspsd the stllled
Ssar4 of 4he bod
NJ - snroe0n's thumb r&sted upon the
slnkt vsatficle ths other fingers Of his
~ "A Il n n0aia hit and found the base Of