The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-11
|D[VES PROBLEM OF
| RAISING THE DEAD
Virginia Scientist Has Wonder
I full Machine by Which He
{ Pumps in Life.
navy SEE SMOTHERED
ANIMALS RESTORED
Medical Men Greatly Interested
in the Invention; Works
Like Human Heart.

NORFOLK, Va, March 10,--Almost
:.,t,ess and semi parslyzed. Professor
lcsoroe Poe, living the life of A recluse
backwoods farm in Norfolk county.
F.1,,ms TO have solved the problem of
.;v;no the dead by means Of his res
ri,ator, ~ as he calls the machine which
he has invented for the purpose. Tests
a ;t>baye already been made in the
....nee OF Norfolk and Portsmouth
.;ty musicians, asphyxiated OF smoth-
arsd dogs and rabbits being the sub
t;scfs ia each case the animal, after
Rc,no pronounced dead by the physl-
Ie;ans, was brought back TO life by Prof
Poe's device, and soon atterWard was
i,olickinp around in the full Joy of
ien.year.old boy. Arthur Ostrauder,
son of the man with whom Prof. Poe
ives acted as his eyes and hands in
Itbo construction of the machine, which
;n;octs the air Of life into the lungs
as il pumps out the deadly gases.
The inventor claims that the machine
/ u;ll resuscitate persons killed by AS
Inbyxiatjon. poison or drowning; prevent
dssth by an anesthetic while a patient
Iis being operated upon; prevent infant
Iasnbyyia'f - al birth: make drunken men
fsober in a few minutes, revive men
electrocutcd or hanged, the latter only
/ in eases where the neck has not been
broken; prevent freezing 10 death even
} in the Arctic.
Prof. Poe had long been studying the
problem. "Whcn does life really leave
/ ihc bo,ly?" Ono day. while he was
|..t-- al io1 .g
trpIoyc brought in trap containing
d huge rat. After the rodent had been
WIrd ihc professor sad: ''Stand
Y "a. boys. aud I'll bring Il back 10
re = 'Ir NUmpcd oxygen into its lungs
r-.ii - "e'n1lly did revive ii. SO that
't rom the table and escaped
=. ~ Eaulg Sister,
n P:oi. Poe. and he re-
N.Fi' to ascertain the cX
nj '-'r li!n cGds His inter
~ ,t;nNlptcd by the fact
r.-i 'a.:- -i-t,r VINO had been pro
.'- ~ t'-"i from tyuhoid fever and
: ! - i.r 'riiio hHd revived within
r. ,r oi f>r inc set for h1riaI
n N,.t % hc mNthcr Of : family.
$vrHi wears ago P-of. Poe, stricken
.i'a G"ai"sis. w"S advised BY his ply
,.'i-1, 30 live ia TIC country. he won't
. Eorfoi'' cognty AID Il vas while in
4 'irsicl en- "a" farp Of ME flicnd \.
/. @ Endcr. that Ec evolved his arti-
|'"ei respiration aITNr7;Gs. The boy
Is,tinT, Of whom the professor vas fond,
ffsiss:d IN assembling the model and in
.f7,rg what the professor 5 dim eyes and
3alsled hands could not ACCOMPLISH.
The professor S model is simply that
|of 'ac human heart The problem in
the case Of persons drowned, suffocatcd
|oF dead through anasthetlcs was TO re-
move the iluld or the poisonous gases
rom the stomach or lungs, and AT the
same time pump life-giving oxygen in.
Ahe. calls double larnyX tubes and two
Ses to connect the rostrils-oue for
inlet and the other for outlet Study
~ the action of the heart. he saw
ma 1t was that of double cylinder, or,
rsthsr, TWO cylinders; right and left
venincals and right and left auricles.
~th The assistance of young Ostrandcr
4 nc built working model in line
With the construction of the heart,
simple machine with two cylinders,
each having an inlet and an outlet
waive The pnDgers of each cylinder
are made to work simultaneously.
Restores Drunken Man.
The machine will IN a very few min
giss sober UP a drunken man who has
lallen INTO a stupor, II is the slow
sesplratlon caused by liquor that makes
man drunk, BY the help of the
,esp3rator the respiration would he
quickened' and, the poison thus carried
put OF his system, mind and body once
u9re @ would resume their normal state,
Inomas Black, retired business man
y NORFOLK, on being shown the plans
%potained permission to exhibit them 10
~. Francis NJ. Morgan, a physician of
noflolk. DR.. Morgan immediately saw
.nat II promised to be an immense boon
humanity, and he induced the pro-
tsssor 10 demonstrate II before n com
muee OF Norfolk county and Norfolk
Wy doctors. They witnessed the gmoth.
essng OF rabbits and dogs to the point
y w1at they declared on their profes-
spIooal honor was absolute death, and
'Agn saw them resuscltatcd.
VI Morgan yesterday described
REORGANIZATION given in his office by
a' aaol' roe and his machine in the pres
NV NV OF himself and DR.. j. p. Jackson
;uu ;n pr. n, G, Wilson. On the operat
ng tabl" was the little brass machine.
soaposed of two small cylinders about
: -ool nlgh and SIX inches in circumfer-