Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-12
DOCTORS RAISE DEAD
WONDERFUL OPERATIONS IN
PARTISAN HOSPITAL.
Chest Opened and Heart Massaged--
Retored Patient Falls After LiV-
ing Again for an Hour.

ing Again for an Hour.
Paris letter: Can the dead be call
ed back. If only for brief time, in or
der to express those last words which
were on the loved lips when they pass
ed away?
Truly If this can be done it viii be
one of the greatest miracles OF the new
century.
Such feat has just been accomplish
ed in one of the hospitals here, OF
which | have authentic details from
one Of the surgeons who was present
when the CHASTITY operation was per-
formed
Sometime ago ] wrote you OF won
derful invention which had been ap-
piled to the many means already in use
for the purpose Of resuscitatiOn. II was
an instrument which when applied to
the auricular nerves started vibration
In the brain leading to stimulation Of
the muscles and through them ultimate
reaction of the entire system.
That is a wonderful invention and by
its means several important expert
ments 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
d current was used TO complete failure
OF the operation With certain inn
provements the instrument Will doubt
less prove an enormous life saver, but
in the meantime IL has been found that
It Is applicable TO less important 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-
liglous | will say that this repetition
Of old time miracles is now being add
ed 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
in a state of suspended animation, has
been superseded by that Of actually
bringing back to life those who are
known to be dead. Only one thing Is
lacking in the result Of the expert
ments 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 IL will
be only "A question OF time when that
last stroke will be added to the marvels
OF science revealed in the foregoing Sc
Quonce 1t has long uecn theory that
death did not take place entirely in the
corporal body until some time after
the usual symptoms indicated that
death In normal manner had occurred.
There will be remembered also in
connection with this intensely inter
esting subject that some time ago
number of French sayants superintend-
ed the taking Of a series of iashlight
photographs AT the exact moment OF
death Of patient in one of the hospi-
tails. The photographs revealed the fact
that a small spiral column assembled
from the body, which ultimately form
ed 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 he
the subtle essence or spirit form leav-
ing the body. A more material essence
yet than this was surmised to have re-
cry sign of death apparent upon which
the physician relies to base his mortu-
airy diagnosis.
All such questions as these were. of
course, left aside by thqe surgeons at
the operation to be described, the ply
steal body alone concerning them in
their experiment and conclusions.
Starting from the fact that after
death the tissues lose their irritabiity
within certain but varying times the
doctors at first undertook number of
experiments upon dogs to demonstrate
that should certain stimulants be an
piled before this function disappeared
The vital organs would again resume
their usual conditions
They were able by post -mortem OK
posture and MASSAGE of the heart TO
produce contracuous of that organ aud
respiration, which continued for few
hours. The method was later tried up
on suicide Two hours after death. The
aslrt contracted, but feobly only. and
soon stopped, The first patient with
whom success was attained was a man
who had committed suicide by taking
chloroform. The fact that he was ac-
tGally dead was not accepted until af-
ter artificial respiration and all the MS
ual remedies had been applied Even
air had been blown into the lungs but
the patients pulse did not reveal The
slightest symptom of existing vitality
not the taintest attempt at rcspira-
ton.