The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-08
RAISED The DEAD
OPERATIONS IN PARTISAN HOS
PITAL EQUAL MIRACLES RE-
CORDED IN PAST
PATIENTS HEART MAssAGED
Experiment Tried on Suicide Who
Had Been Dead Two Hours,
and With Partial
Success.
special to The GIobe.

Special to The Globe.
PARIS, Dec. 7.-Can the dead be called
back, if only for a brief time, in order to
express those last words which were on
the loved lips when they passed away
Truly if this can be done it will be one
of the greatest miracles of the new CEN
fury.
Such a feat has just been accomplished
In one of the hospitals here, of which /
have authentic details from one of the
surgeons who was present when the
CHASTITY operation was performed.
Some time ago l wrote you of Won
derful invention which had been applied
to the many means already in use for
the purpose of resuscitation. 1t was an
instrument which, when applied to the
auricular nerves, started vibration in the
brain leading to stimulation of the mus
cles and through them ultimate reaction
of the entire system.
That is a wonderful invention and by
its means several important experiments
have been made, resulting, in some cases.
to complete restoration of the patient.
In others partial success only has been
attained the difficulty Of gauging the
force of current required either having
led to paralysis of the brain cells or, in
cases where too slight current was
used, to complete failure of the operation.
With certain improvements the instrument
will doubtless prove an enormous life saw
er, but in the meantime it has been
found that it is applicable to less import
ant cases, such as deafness, blindness
and lack of speech. By its power the
dumb are being made to speak, the deaf
to hear and the blind to see.
At the cost of being considered sacre-
1igious I will say that this repetition of
old time miracles is now being auded to
by cases resembling that of the raising
of Jairus' daughter.
The idea of resuscitating those who
were not believed to be dead, but only
were not believed to be dead, but only
In a state of suspended animation. has
been superseded by that of actually
bringing back to life those VINO are
known to be dead. Only one thing IS
lacking in the results of the experiments
made in this direction in the hospitals
here-the terminated dead having not yet
articulated, so far as is really known.
Everything but this one function has
been restored and it will be only a ques-
ton of time when that last stroke will
be added to the marvels of science re
vealed in the foregoing sequence. 1t
has long been a theory that death dill
not take place entirely in the corporal
body until some time after the usual
symptoms indicated that death in nor
NAL manner had occurred.
There will be remembered also in con-
nection with this intensely interesting
subject that some time ago a number of
French savants superintendent the talk
ing of q series of nashlight photographs
at the exact moment of death of pa
tent in one of the hospitals The photo
graphs revealed the fact that a small
spiral column assembled from the body
which ultimately formed into a cloud
and passed through the ceiling of the
room.
This vapory form, which seemed to
wreathe itself into some semblance of
the human figure, was supposed to be
the subtle essence. or spirit form, leaving
the body A more material essence vet
than this was surmised to have remain
ed in the body. but there was every sign
of death apparent upon which the pny.
sician relies to base his mortuary dag
nosis.
All such questions as these were, Of
course. left aside by the surgeons at the
operation to be described, the physical
body alone concerning them in their ex-
pertinent and conclusions.
Starting from the fact that after death
the tissues lose their irritability within