The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-04-04
IT RAISES THE DEAD,
Remarkable Mechanism Invented
by a Virginia Man.
nEsUSc'TATEs THE DROWNED
Professor Poe's "Respirator" sobers
Drunken Men-WiIi Revive Persons
Hanged, EIeetrocuted or Asphyx-
lated by CAST NeutraIizes Poison.


Professor George Poe, living the life
of recluse on backwoods farm in
Norfolk county, Va, claims to have
solved the problem Of raising the dead
by means of his "respirator," as he
calls the machine which he has invent
ed for the purpose. Tests of it have
already been made in the presence of
Norfolk and Portsmouth city physi-
clans, asphyxiated or smothered dogs
and rabbits being the subjects, says
the New York World In each case
the animal. after being pronounced
dead by the physicians, was brought
back to life by Professor Poe's device
and soon afterward was frolicking
around i'll the full JOY Of life.
The inventor claims that the machine
will res,lscilate persons killed by as
phyXi#iion, poison or drowning; pre-
vent death by an anaesthetic while a
patient is being operated upon, pre-
vent Infant asphyXia' ut birth, make
drunken men sober in n few minutes,
revive men electrocuted Or hanged, the
has not been brokeny and prevent
freezing to death even in the arctic.
The professors model is simply that
OF the human heart. The problem in
the case Of persons drowned, suffo
Gated or dead through anaesthetics
was to remove the fluid or the poison.
GUS gases from the stomach or lungs
and at the same time pump life giving
oxygen in. So Professor Poe began en-
periDlents on what he calls double
larynX tubes and two tubes to connect
the nOstrils. one for inlet and the other
FOR outlet. Studying the action Of the
heart, he saw that it was that of Il
double cylinder, or, rather, two cylin-
ders. right and left ventricles and
right aud left auricles. With the as
sistance of young Ostrander he built
working model in line with the con-
strlcti"n OF the heart. simple ma
chine with two cylinders, each having
an inlet and all outlet valve The
pluneers Of each cylinder are made to
work simultaneously.
The machine will in a very few min
utes sober up drunken man who has
fallen into stupor.
Thomas Black, retired business
man of Norfolk. on being shown the
plans obtained permission to exhibit
them to DR.. Francis NJ. Morgan, q ply
sfcian OF Norfolk. DIR. Morgan imme-
dia;ely saw that 1t promised to be an
immense boon to humanity, and he i'll
duced the professor to demonstrate it
before a committee Of Norfolk county
and Norfolk city doctors. They wit
messed the smothering of rabbits and
dogs to the point Of what they de-
clared or their professional honor was
absolute death and then saw them re-.
suscitated.
DIR. Morgan recently described a
demonstration given in his office by
Professor Poe and his machine in the
presence Of himself and DR.. ]. p. Jack
son and DR.. N. G. Wilson. On the
operating table was the little brass ma
chine, composed Of two small cylin-
ders about a foot high and six inches
IN circumference. with a pump handle.
Pipes led from a tank Of oxygen to the
machine. and from it tubes fitted with
nostril pieces We're to be fastened to
q rabbit. The rabbit was put ON the
table anu one of the doctors injected
two grains of morphine into it's leg.
after which four ounces of ether was
given. OF course the rabbit was dead
inter this, and the doctors applied
every known test to discover signs of
life. No life was there, and the doc.
tors agreed that life was positively ex-
tinct
Then Professor Poe applied the tubes
to the rabbits nostrils, and, pumping
out the poisons with one cylinder and
pumping oxygen into the lungs with a
simultaneous movement Of the valves,
within three minutes the rabbit, but
lately dead. was breathing naturally,
and within six minutes it was running
around the room. 1t showed no sign
OF nausea, proving that the ether was
entirely out Of the system.
Next dog was placed in a box con-
timing heavily charged atmosphere
of acetylane gas. one Of. the most
poisonous gases known, and smothered
there for forty minutes The dog was
taken. out, and doctors examined him
and pronounced him dead beyond hope
OF resnscitation. But the little ma
chine got in its work. land the dog. after
four or five artificial respirations, be.
gan breathing naturally. and soon his
pulse was beating normally.
A practical working machine. says
Or. Morgan. is now being constructed
In Baltimore and will be exhibited a,
the jamestown exposition, which viii
open April 90.
DIR. Morgan says the inventor doe.
not claim that his device will restor.
life after diseased tissues refuse t.
work or after the heart is worn out ant
broken down, but he does claim that 1
can resuscitate drowned persons ant
those strangled or smothered to death.
1.-THE principal use Of the machine,
said Professor Poe, twill be for re
suscitating asphyxiated persons in Goa
mines, in hotels where people blow
out the gas and in lodging houses
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